Existence Quotes - Page 15

• It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

  Robert Smith

  Slides, Easy, Pointlessness

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• Every animal would rather die themselves than lose their offspring. But it's just genes, isn't it? All of our existence is spent worrying about the next generation, but we don't actually seem to get anywhere.

  Robert Smith

  Animal, Worry, Generations

  "The Cure's Robert Smith: 'I'm uncomfortable with politicised musicians'" by Louis Pattison, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2011.

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• The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

  Herbert Spencer

  Nature, Thinking, Government

  'Essays' (1891) vol. 3 'The Americans'

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• Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.

  Gertrude Stein

  Children, Thinking, Vote

  Gertrude Stein, Robert Bartlett Haas (1971). “A primer for the gradual understanding of Gertrude Stein”

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• What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!

  Laurence Sterne

  Life, Men, Sorrow

  Laurence Sterne (1817). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.313

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• The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

  Wallace Stevens

  Philosophy, Philosopher, Poet

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.56, Vintage

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• When I stopped going to school, I got the strongest dose of perspective. When you're a kid, your friends, your school, your teachers, your family - that's your whole world, your whole existence. And then when I stopped going, I lost all my friends but the few that were really close to me.

  Kristen Stewart

  Teacher, School, Kids

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• In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Night, Clouds, Usual

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Poems New and Collected”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism.

  Serj Tankian

  Memories, Eye, Thinking

  "‘Screamers’ and Genocide: A Talk With Serj Tankian From System of a Down". Interview with Richard (RJ) Eskow, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 29, 2006.

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• I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Apology, Years, Good Movie

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• All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attachment to either the existence or preservation of Pluto as a planet.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Country, Attachment, America

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• Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.

  Peter Ustinov

  Food, Night, Men

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• What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

  Voltaire

  Power, Thinking, Ideas

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4520, Delphi Classics

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• I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Gold, Bricks, Wells

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• My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help.

  Lech Walesa

  Country, Europe, May

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• Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

  Daniel Webster

  4th Of July, Liberty, Wholesomeness

  Speech at Charleston Bar Dinner, Charleston, S.C., 10 May 1847

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• In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, World, Modern

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “An Ideal Husband: Second Edition, Revised”, p.30, A&C Black

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• In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.

  Armstrong Williams

  Beautiful, Eye, Discovery

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• You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.

  Gene Wolfe

  Thinking, Evil, Conscious

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• I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, Character, Offering

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.302, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The power of procreation is spiritually significant. Misuse of this power subverts the purposes of the Father's plan and of our mortal existence. Our Heavenly Father and His Beloved Son are creators and have entrusted each of us with a portion of Their creative power.

  David A. Bednar

  Father, Son, Creative

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• For much of its existence, design was all about convenience. We wanted to hide technology so that users are not distracted into thinking about the tools they use.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Technology, Thinking, Design

  "Author: Think twice about 'the Internet'". Interview with Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2013.

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• Let's set the existence-of-God issue aside for a later volume, and just stipulate that in some way, self-replicating organisms came into existence on this planet and immediately began trying to get rid of each other, either by spamming their environments with rough copies of themselves, or by more direct means which hardly need to be belabored. Most of them failed, and their genetic legacy was erased from the universe forever, but a few found some way to survive and to propagate.

  Neal Stephenson

  Mean, Self, Issues

  Neal Stephenson (2009). “Cryptonomicon”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• But all provisions that He (God) has made for the gratification of our senses…are much inferior to the provision, the wonderful provision that He has made for the gratification of our nobler powers of intelligence and reason. He has given us reason to find out the truth, and the real design and true end of our existence.

  John Adams

  Real, Design, Wonderful

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• I always take a close look at those who lose themselves in self portraits. They are solitary souls, prone to introspection, who have really grappled with their existence.

  Young-Ha Kim

  Self, Soul, Portraits

  Young-ha Kim (2007). “I Have the Right to Destroy Myself”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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