Quotes About Existence

A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness.

Paul Schofield said something like, 'If I'm not acting in a play, I don't really exist.' Those weren't the exact words, but he meant it's only when I'm acting in a play that I've got something to say about the world. And then why should I talk, when people can come to see it?

I think the story is important in every business. Why do you exist, why are you here, why is your product different, why should I pay attention, why should I care?

There's a very delicate but important contract that a Royal has with the British public and it's this: Most people don't mind paying for the Royals as long as those Royals live a miserable, thwarted existence full of horrible compromise.

Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.

When you're not on the payroll, and you want to continue the Beverly Wilshire lifestyle, but you're only geared for a Holiday Inn existence, things are gonna catch up to you.

The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.

My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.

People say I'm controversial. But I think I lead a very balanced and normal life.

All the particles that we are made of only account for about four per cent of the cosmic inventory.

What constitutes - where are we when we sleep? What is our sense of reality at that moment? It's, you know, science now suggests to us that what has been perceived as matter for a long time is, in fact, energy.

There's a perception out there that Airbnb doesn't want there to be rules. We think rules would be fantastic. We think rules would help our community, but not necessarily the rules that have simply existed for decades.

So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.

I always say, 'Perfection is the flaw. It doesn't exist.' I saw something somewhere about 'porcelain pores' - you're not even allowed to have pores anymore!

The moment you achieve perfection, you are dead. The word exists because we are all imperfect. That is true about performance as well.

God knows Himself and every created thing perfectly. Not a blade of grass or the tiniest insect escapes His eye.

I don't like the fact that C.F.P.B. exists, I will be perfectly honest with you.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?'

For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.

Everything that is, was, and will be, eternally IS, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in their ideal Form.

I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.

Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.

I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought.