Perception not only defines existence but it creates existence. It gives it form. Without perception there is no existence.
Maybe existence is ultimately a lonely thing.
The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.
There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me.
Your existence is evidence that this generation needs something that your life contains
The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.
He had to feel those lips on him again. Had. To. This wasn’t a mild expression of preference. This was an imperative. His body was insistent. To continue his existence on this earth, he now needed the following: food, water, shelter, clothing, and Minerva Highwood’s lips.
When you spend so much time away from home, travelling around doing things like this, talking about yourself too much, which is often very painful. . . So, to actually come home and just be amongst people who know you extremely well, who you can't pretend to be anything other than yourself in front of, is a relief really. It gives you a sense of who you are again. You just don't get any time at home. . . it's such an existence of feeling very unsettled and travelling around. It's great.
The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.
America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government.
The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?
It is crucial that we realize the great value of human existence, the opportunity and the potential that our brief lives afford us. It is only as humans that we have the possibility of implementing changes in our lives.
To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.
We do not ask to be born; and we do not ask to die. But born we are and die we must. We come into existence and we pass out of existence. And in neither case does high-handed fate await our ratification of its decree.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
One of the big mysteries for many conservatives for many, many moons - including me - was the existence of liberal Jews who put liberalism before their Judaism.
Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor future lessens. . . . Superabundant existence wells in my heart.
It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.
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.