Existence Quotes

“To exist is to be in the world, to be with others, to be for something.”

“The choice is the privileged category of human existence.”

“Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that there is a coming into being and a passing away; for nothing comes into being or passes away, but there is a mingling and a separation of things that are.”

“World, world, vast world, if my name were Raimundo, it would be a rhyme, it would not be a solution.”

“Things are there, why should I explain them?”

“The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.”

“The Universe is the way it is because we are here.”

“We are born into a world of words.”

“I was born with a scream.”

“The existence of life in the Universe is not a surprise, but the existence of a universe in which life can exist is a surprise.”

“Space is not empty. It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including ourselves.”

“If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive.”

“Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.”

“But I have felt that to be a person is to be in a situation.”

“Thought means life, since those who do not think do not live in any high or real sense.”

“For from what does not exist, it is impossible for anything to come into being, and it is impossible and unheard of for what exists to be destroyed.”

“When a fish swims, it swims on and on, and there is no end to the water.”

“We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.”

“I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?”

“We have a universe that is finely-tuned for the existence of life. If you change the laws of physics even slightly, life as we know it would not exist.”