Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Schopenhauer

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

Albert Camus

Everything is true, and nothing is true!

Albert Camus

This work is an attempt to understand the time I live in.

Jean-Paul Sartre

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Nothingness haunts Being.

Jean-Paul Sartre

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.

Friedrich Nietzsche

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

Lucy Lawless

I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.

Charlotte Bronte

While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed!

Kurt Braunohler

So much of existence is so boring. To have little moments of stupidity is always welcome.

J. Paul Getty

I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.

Jane Hirshfield

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

Tim Jones

This really hits hard. Our reason for existence is to find people.

Patricia Murray

We've been in existence for 30 years, so I guess we're doing something right.

Will Ferrell

I've had moments in my life when I've thought if I wasn't acting, if I wasn't doing what I do and I had a career in the private sector and I didn't have a family, that I do have some tendencies where I could really kind of have a monastic existence and be okay with it.

Tom Hodgkinson

Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called 'real world' of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we must embrace, salute and support our poets.