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Quotes About Existence

In truth, we're all just pottering, filling the time that we have here, only we like to make ourselves feel bigger by compiling lists of importance.
~ Cecelia Ahern
The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does.
~ Terry Eagleton
There is but one indefectibly certain truth , and that is the truth that pyrrhonistic scepticism itself leaves standing, the truth that the present phenomenon of consciousness exists.
~ William James
Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.
~ Edith Hamilton
Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The elusive truth is that there is nothing stress-producing in the physical world. Things simply are. Molecules move. Light and sound appear.
~ Andrew Bernstein
There is no one religion, no one truth and no myth lacks meaning
~ Cassandra Clare
It's no fun to appreciate to the full the truth of the materialist proposition that I don't have a body, I am a body.
~ Christopher Hitchens
The truth has no form, you know. It's not like walking around trying to actually ask for favors and to be acknowledged, it is what it is.
~ Chuck D
I'm actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse.
~ Cornel West
No one actually lives as if there is no objective truth.
~ Craig Blomberg
Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.
~ D. H. Lawrence
I want to have freedom of thought and expression - not get beaten down into some corporate existence, where there's so much risk of embracing the truth that you feel like you can't do it.
~ D.A. Wallach
I think the only thing that we even have a small tangent of reality or truth about is right now - the moment that is happening right this second. Everything else is up for grabs.
~ Dan Mangan
You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.
~ Dan Simmons
The capital-T Truth is about life before death. It is about making it to 30, or maybe 50, without wanting to shoot yourself in the head.
~ David Foster Wallace
I just live in the truth and think that every moment counts.
~ Debra Winger
As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Spirituality is a brave search for the truth about existence, fearlessly peering into the mysterious nature of life.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
In truth, the world is a complicated place.
~ Ethan Hawke
Dreams are reality at its most profound, and what you invent is truth because invention, by its nature, can't be a lie.
~ Eugene Ionesco
If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine own dreams I'll take And for truth commune with imaginings
~ Fernando Pessoa
In very truth the days are almost free, and if it is another way of saying that our lives are empty, well -- there are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating . . .
~ Florida Scott-Maxwell