“The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.”— Jacques Cousteau, goodreads.com
“My basic view of things is — not to have any basic view of things. From having been exceedingly dogmatic, my views on life have gradually dissolved. They don't exist any longer... I've a strong impression that our world is about to go under. Our political systems are deeply compromised and have no f…”— Ingmar Bergman, en.wikiquote.org
“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”— Gabriel Garcia Marquez, amazon.com
“The most important thing to develop in human beings is a sense of love, and an understanding of unconditional love. I’m not talking about the love towards a specific person, but love in a general sense; for life, for the planet, for purely existing.”— Marina Abramovic, thoughteconomics.com
“I never realized that we need to talk with other people just to know that we exist. That we matter. Loneliness is a howling, empty cavern inside of me that just keeps growing.”— Cheryl Rainfield, amazon.com
“If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in col…”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity — he is continually informing — and filling some other body.”— John Keats, en.wikiquote.org
“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination — what the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth — whether it existed before or not.”— John Keats, en.wikiquote.org
“Mind has come up with this brilliant way of looking at the world — science — but it can’t look at itself. Science has no place for the mind. The whole of our science is based upon empirical, repeatable experiments. Whereas thought is not in that category, you can’t take thought into a laboratory. Th…”— Alan Moore, en.wikiquote.org
“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll 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.”— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com
“Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“If you really think about it, everything is wonderful in this world, everything except for our thoughts and deeds when we forget about the loftier goals of existence, about our human dignity.”— Anton Chekhov, amazon.com