E Quotes
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“Existence, devoid of meaning, is meaningless. Meaning is the ultimate goal of both Absolute and existence. However, meaning, although priceless, is not without a price. If the world had no “price,” it would have no meaning. We need some hardship to find meaning in anything. Even when we talk about beauty, we must “earn” it. Only nonexistence is unconditional. Life and existence are conditional and contingent.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Existence does not listen to your desires, and does not follow your desires, however beautiful and however pious. Existence goes on in its own way.”
“Existence for eternity could get a little boring... especially towards the end.”
“Existence, for me, is not merely suffering — it is a meticulous form of torture disguised as life. I move through a world that calls itself shared, yet what I carry is mine alone: a private apocalypse, constant and precise. Others ache, yes — but not like this. Not like me.”
Source: Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia
“Existence has a fragmented definition.
Fragmented liberation. Fragmented illumination.”
Source: Talismanist: Fragments of the Ancient Fire. Philosophy of Fragmentism Series.
“Existence has no personality. No question of personalities, it simply is whatsoever it is. To experience existence as it is, is to know the truth.”
“Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.”
Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson
“Existence has taught me that a man can live on love and fresh water, on crumbs and promises, but he can never survive insults. And insults are all I've known since I came into the world. Every morning. Every evening. That's all I've seen for my whole life.”
Source: The Attack
“Existence here is an art of love,
at our planet on the cosmic prairie.
New Earth is a celebration of life,
not a validation of ruinous rigidity.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Existence in itself, taken at its least miraculous, is a miracle.”
Source: Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia
“Existence is a Fact, Living is an Art”
“Existence is a living language with countless nodes with which to express it – eternal monadic minds of which each of us is one. We are all cells in a self-solving, self-optimizing conceptual puzzle … a living, divine Rubik’s Cube.”
Source: The Science Conspiracy: How Autistics Took Over the World
“Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.”
Source: The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings
“Existence is a mystery , and one should accept it as a mystery and not pretend to have any explanation .”
“Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.”
“Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.”
“Existence is an imperfection.”
Source: Nausea
“Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt.”
Source: The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration
“Existence is basically a kind of dancing or music--an immensely complex energy pattern which needs no explanation other than itself--just as wee do not ask what is the meaning of fugues by Bach or sonatas by Mozart. We do not dance to reach a certain point on the floor, but simply to dance. Energy itself, as William Blake said, is eternal delight--and all life is to be lived in the spirit of rapt absorption in an arabesque of rhythms.”
“Existence is beyond the power of words
To define:
Terms may be used
But are none of them absolute.
In the beginning of heaven and earth there were no words,
Words came out of the womb of matter;
And whether a man dispassionately
Sees to the core of life
Or passionately
Sees the surface,
The core and the surface
Are essentially the same,
Words making them seem different
Only to express appearance.
If name be needed, wonder names them both:
From wonder into wonder
Existence opens.”
“Existence is beyond the power of words to define:
Terms may be used
But are none of them absolute.”
Source: The Selected Witter Bynner: Poems, Plays, Translations, Prose, and Letters
“Existence is evolution.”
“Existence is god called through love, provoked through love. The moment you become capable of prayer, existence becomes god. The moment you become capable of deep love, life becomes god. It is a transfiguration of the same energy.”
“Existence is governed by its own law. Here, the things impermanent by nature
are bound to meet their end. Hence, with the passage of time, not only Ravana's
Lanka but "Krishna's" Dwarka also sinks.”
Source: The Pulse of Wisdom
“Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“Existence is illusory and it is eternal.”
“Existence is in a way so banal, you may as well try and make a kind of grandeur of it.
Francis Bacon in conversation in Daniel Farson”
“Existence is in constant motion and growth (regardless of progress or regress), moving through time and space (including entropy) with all its other attributes. Only something alive can contain and reflect these attributes. Existence, in and of itself, is life itself. The ability and capacity to think do not equate to the wholeness of life. Still, life itself equates to existence as a whole, including the existence of inorganic matter or something we are used to calling “dead matter.” Everything that exists, regardless of our conception of it and how it appears to us, is alive. Existence is life.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence (which has no size).”
“Existence is mandatory. Meaning is optional.”
Source: The Church of Common Sense: Book I - The Spark
“Existence is mathematical music, and all of us are the instruments playing the cosmic symphony. Our task is simple - to arrive not at any old music, but the finest music that can possibly be played. The ideal music is reached when every player is in perfect harmony with every other player, and not a single discordant note is played.”
Source: The Musical Theory of Existence: Hearing the Music of the Spheres
“Existence is movement. Action is movement. Existence is defined by the rhythm of forces in natural balance. (...) It is our appreciation for dance that allows us to see clearly the rhythms of nature and to take natural rhythm to a plane of well-organised art and culture.”
“Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.”
“Existence is not a mystery unless you think it has a meaning.”
“Existence is not an end in itself but merely the framework upon which all good, both real and imagined, may be built.”
Source: Simone Weil: An Anthology
“Existence is not itself a good thing, that we should spend a lifetime securing its necessaries: a life spent, however victoriously, in securing the necessaries of life is no more than an elaborate furnishing and decoration of apartments for the reception of a guest who is never to come. Our business here is not to live, but to live happily.”
“Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of form a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast - or else there is nothing at all.”
Source: Nausea
“Existence is of little interest save on days when the dust of realities is mingled with magic sand.”
Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)
“Existence is only in the present. Mind is never in the present. In fact, the moment you are in the present, there is no mind in you, there is great silence. The whole sky of your inner being is without thoughts, without clouds. I call this the state of no-mind. Only in this state of no-mind do you meet existence. And that meeting is the ultimate ecstasy. Once you have tasted it, you will never bother about the future.”
“Existence is perpetual motion. Galileo wondered about it, Da Vinci.”
“Existence is prior to essence.”
Source: Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings
“Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.”
“Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.”
“Existence is the awareness of awareness.”
“Existence is the dance that, within a lover’s arms, becomes the ultimate metaphor for Heaven.”
Source: Sapphire: The Blue Testament
“Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end.”
Source: The Sun Watches the Sun
“Existence is the essential thing and the holy thing.”
Source: Gilead
“Existence is the gift. Life is a choice.”
Source: A Crown of Wishes
“Existence is the great indulgence. Anything less than this, any attempt to avoid part of oneself is to invite loss of form, a self-negation leading to a shrinkage of spirit.”
Source: Liber Kaos.
“Existence is the noblest task for the noblest being. There is no real existence without real life. Real life is impossible in absolute comfort and perfection. Absolute perfection and comfort in real life, or of real life, would undermine its value. The value of life is manifested, among other things, through the efforts of every single being in a universal scheme of things. Without effort and action, there would be no real beauty, and even if there were real beauty, this beauty would be less beautiful because we would take it for granted; it would be too easy and, therefore, less enjoyable.”
Source: ABSOLUTE