Non Existence Quotes

• Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

  Douglas Adams

  Puff, Hitchhiking, Logic

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Passing Away, Existence, Nothingness

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IV, 4,

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• Why were a few, or a single one, made at all, if only to exist in order to be made eternally miserable, which is infinitely worse than non-existence?

  Immanuel Kant

  Order, Miserable, Hell

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• It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

  Max Frisch

  Realizing, Consciousness, Moments

  Max Frisch (1977). “Sketchbook 1946-1949”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable.

  Emmanuel Levinas

  Believe, Rewards, Existence

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• For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.

  David Cronenberg

  Reality, Self, Mind

  "Controversial visionary David Cronenberg sees technology, mankind, sexuality merging in 'eXistenZ'". Interview with Rob Blackwelder, splicedwire.com. April 14, 1999.

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• Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.

  R. D. Laing

  Existence

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• The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

  Douglas Adams

  Atheist, Faith Religion, Atheism

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• If there is existence, there must be non-existence. And if there was a time when nothing existed, there must have been a time before that - when even nothing did not exist. Suddenly, when nothing came into existence, could one really say whether it belonged to the category of existence or non-existence?

  Zhuangzi

  Spiritual, Categories, Existence

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• The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Violence, Existence

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• Our adaptation to the natural forces
  is a question of existence or non-existence.
  We cannot transform the universe or nature so that they
  adapt themselves to us; on the contrary, we must adapt ourselves
  to nature and her laws.

  Edmond Bordeaux Szekely

  Law, Adaptation, Natural

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• Clay is fashioned into vessels; it is on their empty hollowness that their use depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a dwelling, and on the empty space within, its use depends. Thus, while the existence of things may be good, it is the non-existence in them that makes them serviceable.

  Laozi

  Cutting, Dwelling, Space

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• A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more. The heart rebels against this, and feels that it cannot be true.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Heart, Men, Years

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• And so it is that we do not exist until we do; and then it is that we play with our world of existent things, and order and disorder them, and so it shall be that non-existence shall take us back from existence, and that nameless spirituality shall return to Void, like a tired child home from a very wild circus.

  Malaclypse the Younger

  Children, Home, Tired

  Malaclypse the Younger, Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst (2006). “Discordia: Hail the Goddess of Chaos and Confusion”, p.156, Ronin Publishing

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• We declare that love is the cause of the existence of all phenomena and that the absence of love is the cause of disintegration or non-existence.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Love, Causes, Absence

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• The [first] argument asserts the non-existence of motion on the ground that that which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

  Zeno of Elea

  Science, Goal, Half

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• It can no longer be maintained that the properties of any one thing in the universe are independent of the existence or non-existence of everything else. It is, at last, no longer sensible to speak of a universe with only one thing in it.

  Lee Smolin

  Independent, Words Of Wisdom, Lasts

  "The Life of the Cosmos". Book by Lee Smolin, January 1, 1997.

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• Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wise, Ignorance, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And I, who timidly hate life, fear death with fascination. I fear this nothingness that could be something else, and I fear it as nothing and as something else simultaneously, as if gross horror and non-existence could coincide there, as if my coffin could entrap the eternal breathing of a bodily soul, as if immortality could be tormented by confinement. The idea of hell, which only a satanic soul could have invented seems to me to have derived from this sort of confusion - a mixture of two different fears that contradict and contaminate each other.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Hate, Breathing, Ideas

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, number 168, 1982.

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• Now rejoice, all ye powers of my soul, that you are so united with God that no one may separate you from Him. I cannot fully praise nor love Him therefore must I die, and cast myself into the divine void, till I rise from non-existence to existence.

  Meister Eckhart

  Soul, Void, May

  Meister Eckhart (2007). “Meister Eckhart's Sermons”, p.37, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The existence of hypocrites does not prove the non-existence of true believers.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hypocrite, Doe, Existence

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1889). “The Salt-cellars: Being a Collection of Proverbs, Together with Homely Notes Thereon”

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• The radio has nothing to do with metal's existence or non-existence. It's for trend only.

  Steve "Lips" Kudlow

  Trends, Radio, Existence

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease, disaster, the lack, the fault, the flaw-the zero.

  Ayn Rand

  Zero, Suffering, Weakness

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.32, Penguin

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• It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire is at stake.

  Paul von Hindenburg

  People, Doe, Empires

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• They say much about the Einstein's theory now. According to Einstein the ether does not exist and many people agree with him. But it is a mistake in my opinion. Ether's opponents refer to the experiments of Maykelson - Morli [Michelson-Morley] who made attempts to detect the Earth's movement relative to the fixed-bed ether. These experiments failed, however it didn't mean the ether's non-existence. I always based as fact the existence of mechanical ether in my works and therefore I could achieve positive success.

  Nikola Tesla

  Mistake, Mean, People

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