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When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. -- John F. Kennedy
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Nonexistence never hurt anyone. Existence hurts everyone. -- Thomas Ligotti
Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom. -- Emily Dickinson
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. -- Erich Fromm
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. -- Albert Camus
All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter. -- Max Planck
Existence is humiliation, anyway. -- Steve Toltz
Existence is an imperfection. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Existence is tedious, anyway. -- Anton Chekhov
Existence is prior to essence. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Existence begins in every instant. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Existence precedes and rules essence. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Existence itself is disconcerting and disorienting. -- Natasha Lyonne
Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification. -- Ayn Rand
Existence is the awareness of awareness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Existence without essence is very stressful. -- Brian Christian
Existence of mankind, the glory of God. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Existence is illusory and it is eternal. -- Albert Camus
Existence is a Fact, Living is an Art -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The real man is the one Unit Existence. -- Swami Vivekananda
Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty. -- Anne Carson
Existence has billions of doors, but death has none! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Existence is perpetual motion. Galileo wondered about it, Da Vinci. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream. -- Anatole France
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream -- Anatole France
Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work -- Charles Bukowski
Our heart is the door to allowing Existence to guide us. -- Swami Dhyan Giten
What makes Existence really nice Is Virtue--with a dash of Vice. -- Harry Graham
Existence in itself, taken at its least miraculous, is a miracle. -- Rebecca West
Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent. . . in that way. -- Huey Newton
Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Existence is not a mystery unless you think it has a meaning. -- Mason Cooley
Existence was really very simple when you did what you were told. -- William Goldman
Existence for eternity could get a little boring... especially towards the end. -- Woody Allen
God is not a person, God is the underlying consciousness in Existence. -- Swami Dhyan Giten
Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement. -- Jane Hirshfield
Existence is where the soul goes to learn how to interpret itself again. -- Duncan McNaughton
We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence. -- Charles Darwin
Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end. -- Dejan Stojanovic
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Well at ease are the Sleepers for whom Existence is a shallow Dream. -- Thomas Carlyle
No man is poor in real terms, because every man owns a great treasure: Existence! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. -- Jack London
Life is existence with meaning -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence. -- Slash
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. -- Honore de Balzac
If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence. -- Margaret Cho
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. -- William James
It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence. -- Robert Smith
The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence. -- William Henry Hudson
Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence. -- Ronald Reagan
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. -- Erich Fromm
The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself. -- Eric Hoffer
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence. -- Rabindranath Tagore
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation. -- George Bernard Shaw
Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. -- John Updike
I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves. -- Shirley MacLaine
For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? -- Milan Kundera
We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you. -- Emily Bronte
Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence. -- Herbert Read
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. -- Joseph Conrad
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit. -- Norman Mailer
Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time. -- Denis Waitley
A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence. -- Pam Brown
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence. -- Lord Byron
I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part. -- David Bowie
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. -- Orison Swett Marden
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. -- Swami Vivekananda
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. -- H. L. Mencken
This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification. -- Herman Hesse
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. -- Ayn Rand
The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish. -- Milan Kundera
Russia does not have in its possession any trustworthy data that supports the existence of nuclear weapons or any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and we have not received any such information from our partners as yet. -- Vladimir Putin
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. -- C. S. Lewis
The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence. -- Paul Auster
In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on. -- M.I.A.
As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable. -- Al Sharpton
All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone. -- Christian Lous Lange
Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence. -- Ravi Zacharias
Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone wolf patriot standing up to dystopic forces of oppression - a myth - and more in common with the disease known as cancer - a harsh reality. -- Steven Weber
The Moon is a ball of left-over debris from a cosmic collision that took place more than four billion years ago. A Mars-sized asteroid - one of the countless planetesimals that were frantically churning our solar system into existence - hit the infant Earth, bequeathing it a very large natural satellite. -- Seth Shostak
Nothing Is Unusual (NIU). -- Toba Beta
Speak success into existence. -- Bianca Frazier
Never doubt your existence. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
We make our purpose. -- Carl Sagan
I'm one of my sensations. -- Alberto Caeiro
Bury me where I die. -- Jane Bulos
Reality cannot breathe without imagination. -- Lionel Suggs
Love is divine force of existence. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Love brings you closer to yourself -- Avis J. Williams
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The unearthly arrogance of the nonexistence. -- Allen Ellow
Maps codify the miracle of existence. -- Nicholas Crane
love starts a shake-upwithin whole existence -- lity munshi
Passionate living is the joy of existence. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Boredom slays more of existence than war. -- Norman Mailer
Exist outside but live and rest within... -- Aditya Ajmera
Art is the refreshing source of existence. -- Kristian Goldmund Aumann
The fabric of existence weaves itself whole. -- Charles Ives
Physical existence is finite.- Sagar Gorijala. -- Sagar Gorijala
The Structure is bigger than the concept. -- J.T Abraham
One man's fantasy is another man's reality! -- Ramana Pemmaraju
Your reality is a reflection of yourself -- Avis J. Williams
Exist with me. We'd do so beautifully. -- Alaska Gold
Let's not hate the existence of hatred. -- Toba Beta
Whatever begins to exist has a cause. -- Glenn Meade
Creation of mankind, the power of God. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Unless I speak, you won't see me. -- Marty Rubin
Without thoughts the mind cannot exist only consciousness -- Avis J. Williams
Tomorrow is like infinity,it doesn't really exist. -- Ali Asad
If God does not exist, everything is permitted. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Love makes you feel at home in existence. -- Swami Dhyan Giten
It takes time, or does time take it? -- Anthony Liccione
All objects exist in a moment of time. -- Amy Tan
To conserve energy, her little planet stopped spinning. -- Haruki Murakami
Delusions are a vital part of my existence. -- Jason Krumbine

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