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Quotes About Existence

There is no place to search for the truth. Though it's right beneath your feet, it can't be found.
~ John Daido Loori
The thing about the truth is that it exists outside of belief. Even if nobody believes it, that thing is still true.
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love is the only truth; everything else is an illusion.
~ Pema Chodron
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
~ William James
Not Truth, but Faith it is that keeps the world alive.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Agony is truth its our connection to the living I accept it as perfection and keep on existing in the now
~ Eyedea
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
~ Nikolai Gogol
if it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive.
~ Amy Hempel
Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Death offers mankind a full view of truth.
~ Socrates
Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Being precedes Truth, and ... Truth precedes the Good.
~ Josef Pieper
You wonder and you wonder until you wander out into Infinity, where - if it is to be found anywhere - Truth really exists.
~ Marita Bonner
Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.
~ Richard Bach
Love is beauty and beauty is truth, and that is why in the beauty of a flower we can see the truth of the universe.
~ Gautama Buddha
Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.
~ Ramana Maharshi
We live in a real world. Come back to it.
~ Natalie Portman
Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
~ Paul de Man
The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.
~ William Saroyan
But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
~ Lord Byron
Everything passes, only truth remains.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.
~ Antonio Machado
Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and discovers his own source, this is all that is required.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.
~ Calvin S. Hall