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Quotes About Existence

There is no man who loves a woman that does not desire to come to her for the renewal of his courage, for the cutting asunder of his difficulties. And that will be the mainspring of his desire for her. We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist.
~ Ford Madox Ford
We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist.
~ Ford Madox Ford
It is not merely that people must die and people must suffer, if not here, then there. But what is dreadful is that the world goes on and people go on being stupidly cruel - in the old ways and all the time.
~ Ford Madox Ford
What I'm talking about here, by the way, is salvation. The latin root, salve, means 'health.' The Teutonic cognates 'health' and 'holy' share the same root. Being agnostic about the afterlife, I look for salvation here - not to be saved from life, but to be saved by life, in life, for life.
~ Forrest Church
just the bare bones of a name, all rock and ice and storm and abyss. It makes no attempt to sound human. It is atoms and stars. It has the nakedness of the world before the first man – or of the cindered planet after the last
~ Fosco Maraini
Human greatness has always had sadness for a companion.
~ Fr Gabriele Amorth
We hold from God the gift which, as far as we are concerned, contains all others, Life — physical, intellectual, and moral life.
~ Frederic Bastiat
The existence of persons and property preceded the existence of the legislator, and his function is only to guarantee their safety.
~ Frederic Bastiat
It is not because men have made laws, that personality, liberty, and property exist. On the contrary, it is because personality, liberty, and property exist beforehand, that men make laws. What, then, is law? As I have said elsewhere, it is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.
~ Frederic Bastiat
Lorsque la Spoliation est devenue le moyen d'existence d'une agglomération d'hommes unis entre eux par le lien social, ils se font bientôt une loi qui la sanctionne, une morale qui la glorifie.
~ Frederic Bastiat
It is not because men have made laws, that personality, liberty, and property exist. On the contrary, it is because personality, liberty, and property exist beforehand, that men make laws.
~ Frederic Bastiat
We should not see those great displacements of capital, of labor, and of population, that legislative measures occasion; displacements that render so uncertain and precarious the very sources of existence, and thus enlarge to such an extent the responsibility of Governments.
~ Frederic Bastiat
to say that the aim of the law is to cause justice to reign, is to use an expression that is not rigorously exact. It ought to be said, the aim of the law is to prevent injustice from reigning. In fact, it is not justice that has an existence of its own, it is injustice. The one results from the absence of the other.
~ Frederic Bastiat
In fact, it is not justice which has an existence of its own, it is injustice. The one results from the absence of the other. But
~ Frederic Bastiat
In fact, it is not justice which has an existence of its own, it is injustice. The one results from the absence of the other.
~ Frederic Bastiat
Existence, faculties, assimilation—in other words, personality, liberty, property—this is man.
~ Frederic Bastiat
Despoilers obey the Malthusian law; they multiply with the means of existence, and the means of existence of knaves is the credulity of their dupes.
~ Frederic Bastiat
Privé d'espace et de temps, j'habite un container d'éternité.
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
ÃŽn zilele noastre, Descartes n-ar mai scrie: "Cuget, deci exist". Ar spune: "Sunt singur, deci cuget
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
?i?u khó kh?n nh?t không ph?i là bi?t ???c t?i sao ta l?i s?ng, mà là thoát ???c kh?i câu h?i này.
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
Nos vies n'ont pas d'importance, elles coulent au fond du temps, pourtant nous avons existé et rien ne l'empêchera: bien que liquides, nos joies ne s'évaporent jamais.
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
Amar: no vivimos para nada más
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
Dac? Dumnezeu exist? cu adev?rat, m? întreb ce o fi învârtit în ziua aia.
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
T? k? nabagie mirst,bag?tajiem ir iemesls dz?vot.
~ Frédéric Beigbeder