E Quotes
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“Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no other truth to tell.”
Source: The Days of Abandonment
“Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent. . . in that way.”
“Existence is where the soul goes to learn how to interpret itself again.”
Source: Tiny Windows
“Existence is.. well.. what does it matter? I exist on the best terms I can. The past is now part of my future. The present is well out of hand.”
“Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.”
“Existence itself is disconcerting and disorienting.”
“Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.”
“Existence itself stands in need of nothing, for it lacks nothing, whereas everything else needs it, because outside of it there is nothing. Nothingness stands in need of existence, as a sick man lacks health and is in need. Health has no need of a sick man. To want nothing, therefore, characterizes the highest perfection, is fullest and purest existence.”
“Existence lived in service of others, is existence that outlives the entity.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“Existence loves laughter. You may have observed, or not, that man is the only animal in the whole of existence who is capable of laughing. Laughter is the only distinguishing mark that you are not a buffalo, you are not a donkey; you are a human being. Laughter defines your humanity and your evolution. And the greatest laugh is at your own ridiculous things.”
“Existence loves us. Otherwise we would not be here. Life is a gift of God. It is not our choice to be here, we have been chosen to be here by existence. It is a decision by the whole.
Existence goes on giving us gifts on all levels: physical, psychological and spiritual. A meditator has to remember that existence goes on pouring so many gifts, and that he has not thanked it by contributed anything
in return. Real gratitude to existence is expressed by creativity. When we create something in return to enhance existence, we start being creative by showing gratitude. In our own way we are participating with God. It can be a song, a painting or to make people happy and creating more happy and smiling faces. It is to make a little change in the world, and create a better and more beautiful world. If we can create something out of gratitude to existence it brings joy. Creativity is the way of prayer.”
Source: Meditation: A Love Affair with the Whole - Thousand and One Flowers of Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Freedom, Beauty and the Divine
“Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness.”
Source: The Ethics of Ambiguity
“Existence needs you the way we are. You are fulfilling something immensely valuable in the life of existence. We are not meaningless in the growth and evolution of existence.”
Source: God is Everywhere: You are Divine, Everything is Divine
“Existence of an excited state is not a prerequisite for the production of inhibition; inhibition can exist apart from excitation no less than, when called forth against an excitation already in progress, it can suppress or moderate it.”
“Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other
problem will solve itself.”
“Existence on earth is for the glory of the eternal God.”
“Existence only appears substantial because of our intellectual inferences, assumptions, confabulations and expectations. What is actually in front of our eyes now is incredibly elusive. The volume of our experiences - the bulk of life itself - is generated by our own internal myth-making. We conjure up substance and continuity out of sheer intangibility. We transmute quasi-emptiness into the solidity of existence through a trick of cognitive deception where we play both magician and audience. In reality, nothing ever really happens, for the scope of the present isn’t broad enough for any event to unfold objectively. That we think of life as a series of substantial happenings hanging from a historical timeline is a fantastic cognitive hallucination.”
Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief
“Existence permeates sexuality and vice versa, so that it is impossible to determine, in a given decision or action, the proportion of sexual to other motivations, impossible to label a decision or act ‘sexual’ or ‘non-sexual’ . There is no outstripping of sexuality any more than there is sexuality enclosed within itself. No one is saved and no one is totally lost.”
“Existence precedes and rules essence.”
“Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“Existence waltzes with a paradox as its partner. Reality and illusion pirouette, forever blurring the lines. Life, a vibrant flame, flickers against the backdrop of inevitable darkness. We are tethered to finitude, yet yearn for the boundless embrace of the infinite. It's a symphony of contradictions, a beautiful tension that keeps the universe humming.”
“Existence was bigger than just life. It was everyone's life all together, and even if you lived in Buffalo, New York and had never been more than ten miles from home, you were part of the puzzle, too. It didn't matter how small your life was.”
Source: The Brooklyn Follies
“Existence was given us for action, rather than indolent and aimless contemplation; our worth is determined by the good deeds we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel. They greatly mistake who suppose that God cares for no other pursuit than devotion.”
Source: Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom
“Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work. Think of how many times you put on your underwear in a lifetime. It was appalling, it was disgusting, it was stupid.”
“Existence was really very simple when you did what you were told.”
Source: The Princess Bride
“Existence – what’s it good for, if it can’t be forever – and the only way to exist forever is through your actions – your civilized, courageous and conscientious actions.”
Source: Saint of The Sapiens
“Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.”
Source: The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
“Existence without essence is very stressful.”
“Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.”
“EXISTENCE, n. A transient, horrible, fantastic dream,/ Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem:/ From which we're wakened by a friendly nudge/ Of our bedfellow Death, and cry: "O fudge!"”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Existencia compartida es existencia civilizada, existencia asustada es existencia arruinada.”
Source: Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One
“Existential angst of an unexamined life is akin to the travails of a weary traveler who keeps traveling without a lasting destination or overall purpose of why one is traveling while being caught in a cyclical spell of seeking one more destination that might look like the be all and end all.”
Source: The Essence of Enlightenment: Comprehensive Guide to Self-inquiry and Enlightenment
“Existential anguish derives from the human freedom to think and act, experience love for life, and fear death. We must decide whether we wish to embrace all experience and encounters in life or seek escape from various aspect of human nature. How we resolve to address existential anguish becomes a large part of our personal story.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Existential anxiety of doubt drives the person toward the creation of certitude of systems of meaning, which are supported by tradition and authority. Neurotic anxiety builds a narrow castle of certitude which can be defended with the utmost certainty.”
“Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world's most pointless forms of suffering.”
“Existential loneliness and a sense that one's life is inconsequential, both of which are hallmarks of modern civilizations, seem to me to derive in part from our abandoning of belief in the therapeutic dimensions of a relationship with place, a continually refreshed sense of the endless complexity of patterns in the natural world. Patterns that are ever present and discernible, and which incorporate the observer undermines the feeling that one is alone in the world, or meaningless in it.”
Source: Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays
“Existential psychotherapy is the movement which, although standing on one side on the scientific analysis owed chiefly to the genius of Freud , also brings back into the picture the understanding of man on the deeper and broader level man as the being who is human. It is based on the assumption that it is possible to have a science of man which does not fragmentize man and destroy his humanity at the same moment as it studies him. It unites science and ontology .”
Source: Existence
“Existential risks all have the ability to defy sustainability. There is no sustainability without mitigating existential risks.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation
“Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in the truth of life, and it then appears as the only proposition of salvation which one can address to men.”
Source: The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism
“Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.”
“Existentialism is possible only in a world where God is dead or a luxury, and where Christianity is dead.”
Source: The Death of God: The Culture of Our Post-Christian Era
“Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children.”
“Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing.”
“Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.”
Source: Vaudeville for a princess, and other poems
“Existentialist philosophy recognizes the existence of the individual as the real purpose of human life. The recognition is basically atheistic and it encourages the individual to free himself from the impositions of custom, governmental authority, economic pressures, and cultural inhibitions.”
“Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don't like to joke.”
Source: Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems
“Existentially significant events hold powerful long-term energy and become sticking points until they are understood and rectified.”
Source: Nanima: Spiritual Fiction
“Existenz only becomes clear through reason; reason only has content through Existenz.”
“Existența e o luptă, iar riscurile de a eșua se ivesc la tot pasul, dar cei care trăiesc cu teama eșecului, a greutăților sau a rușinii nu-și vor atinge niciodată potențialul. Fără să-ți forțezi limitele, fără să te mai avânți, din când în când, cu capul înainte de-a lungul frânghiei, fără să îndrăznești din plin, nu vei afla niciodată ce e cu adevărat posibil în viața ta.”
Source: Make Your Bed / Life Leverage / How to be F*cking Awesome / Mindset with Muscle
“Exister dans ce monde, c'était se déchaîner. La vie, c'était la puissance de se déchaîner sans être retenu par aucune morale. Sans être restreint, contrôlé, réprimé. Une force qui débordait, qui se démultipliait, et qui continuait à marquer le rythme.
La vie, c'était une vitesse que personne ne pouvait limiter.”
Source: Ikebukuro West Gate Park III