Quote: In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist. Author: Albert Camus 1913-1960, French Existential Writer
Quote: There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be. Author: E. M. Cioran 1911-, Rumanian-born French Philosopher
Quote: To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being. Author: E. M. Cioran 1911-, Rumanian-born French Philosopher
Quote: Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence. Author: Charles Dickens 1812-1870, British Novelist
Quote: Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming. Author: Coleman Dowell 1925-1985, American Novelist, Dramatist, Lyricist
Quote: Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. Author: Erich Fromm 1900-1980, American Psychologist
Quote: Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery. Author: Remy De Gourmont 1858-1915, French Novelist, Philosopher, Poet, Playwright
Quote: The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself. Author: Eric Hoffer 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher
Quote: Every life is its own excuse for being. Author: Elbert Hubbard 1859-1915, American Author, Publisher
Quote: There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. Author: Carson Mccullers 1917-1967, American Author
Quote: I don't exist when you don't see me. Author: Sisters Of Mercy
Quote: The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Author: Vladimir Nabokov 1899-1977, Russian-born American Novelist, Poet
Quote: Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present. Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher
Quote: We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life. Author: Jules Renard 1864-1910, French Author, Dramatist
Quote: One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life. Author: Jean-Paul Sartre 1905-1980, French Writer, Philosopher
Quote: There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then. Author: Hazel Scott 1920-1981, American Entertainer
Quote: Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. Author: Susan Sontag 1933-, American Essayist
Quote: I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria. Author: Sting 1951-, British-born American Musician, Singer, Songwriter, Actor
Quote: Being is the great explainer. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. Author: John Updike 1932-, American Novelist, Critic
Quote: I can, therefore I am. Author: Simone Weil 1910-1943, French Philosopher, Mystic