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Quotes About Existence

That which is capable of perceiving objective reality is, in Sufism, the human soul (ruh).
~ Idries Shah
If they ever envision Goodness as a thing that exists outside them, some real thing they've been called to participate in by their actions, well then, we're headed right back toward The Virtues.
~ Geoffrey Wood
I think our brain is our soul. I don't believe in after-life and much less in a sort of buildings-like heaven, where you meet friends, enemies, relatives.
~ Margherita Hack
Though man needs to live to believe, he does not need to believe to live.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
They think virtues are man-made, only exist because they exist, but if no human had ever existed, The Virtues would persist for they hold their being from the very Presence of the Adversary Himself.
~ Geoffrey Wood
Monkeying around with other apes, a monkey was made - called, HUMAN. God is great!
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
Fortunately or unfortunately, the greatest authority on matters of life is life itself.
~ Raheel Farooq
You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.
~ Herbie Hancock
Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The only way to show a true respect for God is to act morally while ignoring God's existence.
~ Karen Armstrong
We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance to our actions on earth.
~ Susan Jacoby
To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats
~ Hideki Tojo
With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
I don't really believe in anything special, but I respect God. I go to church sometimes, but not often.
~ Jaye Davidson
Evolution isn't just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It's an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are part of nature in every respect.
~ Kenneth R. Miller
Minutes without seconds and hours without minutes cannot exist! Respect the links before respecting the chain!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.
~ Virginia Woolf
Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.
~ Don McLean
If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.
~ Emily Bronte
"And what would humans be without love?" Rare, said Death.
~ Terry Pratchett
It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In her beauty rests (both) my death and my life.
~ Maurice Sceve
If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.
~ David McCallum