Existence Quotes

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. Woody Allen

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. Sydney Smith

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. Erich Fromm

You exist only in what you do. Federico Fellini

All the time I feel I must justify my existence. Prince Charles

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence Thomas Wolfe

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. Susan Sontag

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. John Updike

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present. Friedrich Nietzsche

Existence is not a mystery unless you think it has a meaning. Mason Cooley

Afflicted with existence, each man endures like an animal the consequences which proceed from it. E M Cioran

All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people. John Stuart Mill

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. Quentin Crisp