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Quotes About Existence

Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.
~ Gilbert Ryle
One can not start by saying that our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends upon us to give it importance.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Time is the water in which we live, and we breathe it like fish. ... Time pours into us and then pours out again. In between the two pourings we live our destiny.
~ Louise Erdrich
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
~ Albert Camus
You must learn to understand the secret of gratitude. It is more than just so-called virtue. It is revealed to you as a mysterious law of existence. In obedience to it we have to fulfill our destiny.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.
~ Jean Giraudoux
We live under the sun, but our destiny is beyond its rising and setting.
~ David Jeremiah
The universe is computing its own destiny.
~ James Gleick
To take charge of destiny means to play a very convoluted chess game on multiple levels of consciousness and existence.
~ Frederick Lenz
Once [China] had a destiny. Once she was a conqueror. Now her greatest destiny seems to be merely to exist, to survive.
~ Lin Yutang
The universe's destiny has very little to do with the near-term destiny of Earth.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
We have to live with our loneliness and the destiny that drives each person to the order of things.
~ Cecile de France
Everything created has a beginning, Destiny of the Endless...as everything created has an end.
~ Unknown
Life is a dream. It moves from cause to cause, effect to effect, one point to another, one state of existence to another.
~ Aditya Ajmera
Destiny smells of dust and the libraries of the night.
~ Unknown
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
~ Karl Marx
Life, without the dignity of an intelligent being, is not worth having.
~ Louis Riel
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.
~ Samuel Beckett
People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.
~ Neil Gaiman
There is a permanent amnesia planted in us, which just as we keep forgetting our dreams, we sometimes keep on forgetting our reality.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality
~ Oliver Sacks
The dreamer dreams, and the dreamer within the dream dreams.
~ Jane Roberts
How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?
~ Robin Hobb