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| Hemligheten med existensen är att intet frukta. Frukta aldrig vad som blir av dig, förlita dig inte på någon. Ty endast när du frånsäger dig all hjälp är du befriad. | Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.) |
| There was emptiness more profound than the void between the stars, for which there was no here and there and before and after, and yet out of that void the entire plenum of existence sprang forth. | Heinz R. Pagels |
| The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes | Madame de Staël (1766-1817) |
| Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. | Orison Sweet Marden |
| The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. | Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.) |
| Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve | Erich Fromm (1900-1980) |
| The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. | Quentin Crisp (1908-1999) |
| There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known. | D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) |
| The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. | Henri Bergson (1859-1941) |
| Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honor, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living | Decimus Junius Juvenal (60-127) |
| People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about. | Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) |
| Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing. | Bret Harte (1836-1902) |
| There was emptiness more profound than the void between the stars, for which there was no here and there and before and after, and yet out of that void the entire plenum of existence sprang forth. | Heinz R. Pagels |
| When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning - how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse. | Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
| The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| The existence of a man is so small a thing to take, so mighty a thing to employ | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes | Madame de Staël (1766-1817) |
| No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all other things in the world | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil. | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science? | Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) |
| For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it , it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers...This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. | Albert Camus (1913-1960) |
| In the wild struggle for existance, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |