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Quotes About Existence

I am what survives of me.
~ Erik Erikson
We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.
~ John Updike
Same with souls. They can't survive without a body for long.
~ Alex Chiu
Man was made to be immortal; else, he could not survive being the fool he is.
~ Douglas Southall Freeman
Who lives if India doesn't survive?
~ Arun Jaitley
Without its roots in reality, I don't think escapism can survive.
~ Rajkumar Hirani
If your subjects are eternal... they'll survive.
~ Elliott Erwitt
I need to make money. If I don't, I cannot survive.
~ Lou Jiwei
In London, you'll be walking around and, 'Oh, there's the ground.' Every area of the city has a Premier League club. They all survive; they all exist with enough money, and that's good.
~ Jurgen Klopp
What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.
~ Alan Watts
Heathens are unredeemed outcasts from heaven who roam the planet without hope of surviving the deaths of their bodies. They may have values, but they are not secured by any divine source. Yet we embrace this because we think it represents the truth.
~ Julian Baggini
We're just kinda surviving at a very comfortable level.
~ Bruce Johnston
I do suspect that this world is hell.
~ Francesca da Rimini
I do definitely believe that there is life away from this planet. I mean, we've kind of established that with the fact that we found bacteria on meteorites, and we've kind of used that to backtrack and show how this Earth, this planet, could have formed the ability to sustain life in the first place.
~ Corey Taylor
Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
~ Harmony Korine
Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of existence. Long before we arrived on the scene, they worked out a way of being in the world that has not fundamentally changed and is sustainable, and not predatory or destructive.
~ Alex Shoumatoff
I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
~ Edward Albee
Since Israel is a democratic state surrounded by essentially undemocratic states which have sworn her destruction, those interested in democracy everywhere must support Israel's existence.
~ Bayard Rustin
For 'Jeremiah Johnson,' nobody wanted to make that film. I went to Sydney Pollack, and I said, 'Sydney, I live in the mountains, and I would like to make a film about a person that had to exist in the mountains and survive in the mountains.'
~ Robert Redford
The existence of symmetry laws is in full accordance with our daily experience. The simplest of these symmetries, the isotropy and homogeneity of space, are concepts that date back to the early history of human thought.
~ Chen-Ning Yang
'What was there before the Big Bang?' That's a question that both kids and adults love to pose to anyone who seems sympathetic. After all, if the universe has only been around for roughly 14 billion years, isn't it legitimate to ask what was in existence before the mother-of-all-events cranked up the cosmos?
~ Seth Shostak
Pierre Curie came to see me and showed a simple and sincere sympathy with my student life. Soon he caught the habit of speaking to me of his dream of an existence consecrated entirely to scientific research, and he asked me to share that life.
~ Marie Curie
Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.
~ Mikhail Bakunin
Human atoms are the notes, their life the symphony.
~ Kyle Hill