Existence Quotes (603 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Peter Nivio Zarlenga
„What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.“
Picture of quotation author Asif Ali Zardari
„After the assassination of my wife, our nation was perilously close to civil strife. If I, as the co-chairman of the Party, had asked my people to take to the streets, the very existence of the federation would have been threatened.“
Picture of quotation author Frank Zappa
„Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.“
― Frank Zappa ―
Picture of quotation author Ravi Zacharias
„Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.“
― Ravi Zacharias ―
Picture of quotation author Muhammad Yunus
„I began my career as an economics professor but became frustrated because the economic theories I taught in the classroom didn't have any meaning in the lives of poor people I saw all around me. I decided to turn away from the textbooks and discover the real-life economics of a poor person's existence.“
― Muhammad Yunus ―
Picture of quotation author Eliezer Yudkowsky
„The human species was not born into a market economy. Bees won't sell you honey if you offer them an electronic funds transfer. The human species imagined money into existence, and it exists - for us, not mice or wasps - because we go on believing in it.“
Picture of quotation author Peter York
„This may sound insulting to some of my cult studies friends, but there's a lot of cult studies people who ignore, shall we say, the wider canvas - because they simply don't know about its existence or they don't know how it operates.“
― Peter York ―
Picture of quotation author Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
„The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.“
Picture of quotation author Philip Yancey
„In some ways, evil is backhanded proof of Gods existence.“
― Philip Yancey ―
Picture of quotation author Gao Xingjian
„When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.“
― Gao Xingjian ―
Picture of quotation author John Wycliffe
„In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bishop has not laid hands upon him according to his traditions, God has Himself appointed him.“
― John Wycliffe ―
Picture of quotation author Elizabeth Wurtzel
„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.“
Picture of quotation author Franz Wright
„What I myself experience is indescribable gratitude in the face of God's perpetual and preemptive love, a love which is not contingent upon requital or even belief in His existence.“
― Franz Wright ―
Picture of quotation author Tom Wolfe
„The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.“
― Tom Wolfe ―
Picture of quotation author Gene Wolfe
„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 ―
Picture of quotation author Terence Winter
„J. Edgar Hoover very famously denied the existence of organized crime up until the Appalachian Meeting, I think, in 1957. It was interesting to me that he clearly had to know that there was such a thing as organized crime and organized criminals as far back as the '20s.“
― Terence Winter ―
Picture of quotation author Robert Winston
„We give antibiotics to people when they're dying or when they're not well; that's acting God. I mean, acting God is using the tools of creation to try and improve human life, human existence. I don't think that that's a huge problem.“
― Robert Winston ―
Picture of quotation author A. N. Wilson
„Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.“
― A. N. Wilson ―
Picture of quotation author Marianne Williamson
„Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.“
Picture of quotation author Marianne Williamson
„The point of Jesus' existence wasn't to lessen or diminish our appreciation of each other, but to expand our appreciation of each other by reminding us what lies within all of us, because Jesus was an example of the pinnacle of human evolution.“

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