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Existence Quotes - Page 23

Existence is prior to essence.

Jean-Paul Sartre (2002). “Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings”, p.29, Routledge

The few certainties in our existences are pain, death and bereavement.

Jane Wilson-Howarth (2012). “A Glimpse of Eternal Snows: A Journey of Love and Loss in the Himalayas”, p.375, Bradt Travel Guides

Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe.

Jack Vance (2000). “Cugel the Clever: (previously titled The Eyes of the Overworld)”, p.235, Macmillan

Fear is the touch of death, death reminding us of its existence.

Ivan Klíma, Paul Wilson (2006). “Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light”, p.110, Grove Press

We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.

Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.366, Penguin

Here or nowhere is our heaven.

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.718, Simon and Schuster

For me, the existence of nonexistence of God is a nonissue.

Greg Graffin, Steve Olson (2010). “Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God”, p.5, Harper Collins

I might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things I actually see and feel.

George Berkeley, Desmond M. Clarke (2008). “Berkeley: Philosophical Writings”, p.211, Cambridge University Press

As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2016). “The Will to Power, Book I to IV: An Attempted Transvaluation of all Values (Complete)”, p.370, Library of Alexandria

Making movies is an effort is an attempt to leave a trace of your existence.

"Frederick Wiseman on his new film and his dream of shooting in the White House". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2015.