Famous Quotes about existence

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote #413 from Manon

Of course Ill hurt you. Of course youll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence means accepting the risk of absence.
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Israelmore Ayivor quote #185 from Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers

To be a great achiever you must first discover your main purpose of existing through feasible communication mode with your maker the source of your destiny. This brings you a conviction to work with.
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Terry Eagleton quote #129 from How to Read Literature

Interestingly this speech by Prospero does not contrast the unreality of the stage with the solid flesh-and-blood existence of real men and women. On the contrary it seizes on the flimsiness of dramatic characters as a metaphor for the fleeting fantasy-ridden quality of actual human lives. It is we who are made of dreams not just such figments of Shakespeares imagination as Ariel and Caliban. The cloud-capped towers and gorgeous palaces of this earth are mere stage scenery after all.
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Alberto Caeiro quote #130 from The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro

That thing over there was more there than its thereYes sometimes I cry about the perfect body that doesnt exist.But the perfect body is the bodiest body there can beAnd the rest are the dreams men haveThe myopia of someone who doesnt look very much
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Nezahualcóyotl famous quote #19

So said Tochihuitzinso said CoyolchiuhquiWe come out of the dream suddenlywe only come to dreamit isnt true it isnt truethat we come to live on the earth.Like grass in springis our being.Our heart makes them growflowers sprout from our flesh.Some open their corollasthen they become dry.So said Tochihuitzin.
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Swami Dhyan Giten quote #111 from Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being

Life is really very simple. In each moment we have the opportunity to choose between saying yes or no to listen to our intuition to listen to our true inner voice the Existential voice within ourselves. When we say yes we have contact with Existence and we receive nourishment love joy support and inspiration. When we say no we create a separation from life and begin to create dreams and expectations of how it should be. We begin to live in the memories of the past and in the fantasies of the future as if any other time than here and now really could make us happy and satisfied.
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Steven L. Peck quote #141 from A Short Stay in Hell

It seemed funny that one day I would go to bed in her arms and the next not feel anything like a switch had gone off. But no that wasnt honest either. This had been building for a long time. Our silences were getting longer. Our arguments more frequent. How do you stay with someone when there are no dreams to build No purpose to accomplish No meaning No meaning that was the monster that drove us away from one another in the end. Always.
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