Quotes with non-existence

Quotes 241 till 260 of 283.

  • Sydney Smith To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Billy Corgan To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.
    In: Stapleton, Jim. Smashing Pumpkins (1996)
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Barbara Grizzuti Harrison To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals - and critics of the Women's Movement.
    Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
    American journalist, essayist and memoirist (1934 - 2002)
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  • Georges Bataille To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Albert Einstein To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • C. S. Lewis Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
    The Problem of Pain (1940)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Honoré de Balzac Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • A. N. Wilson Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Ann Macbeth We are here predominantly to support independent filmmakers and their needs. We are also here to assist people actually in their production, non-commercial people in their production.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • John F. Kennedy We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Malcolm X We declare our right on this earth to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Abdullah Ahmad Badawi We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage.
    Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
    Malaysian politician (1939 - )
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  • Asa Gray We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Eric Hoffer We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Thomas Hardy Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be - and the non-necessity of it.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Peter Nivio Zarlenga What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.
    Peter Nivio Zarlenga
    American businessman, founder of Blockbuster Videos
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