“I’ve noticed before that if you go too long without anyone seeing you, really seeing you, it’s easy to start wondering if you’re really there.”— Maggie Mitchell, amazon.com
“I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“The man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.”— Osho, amazon.com
“The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there’s a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.”— Harvey Keitel, brainyquote.com
“I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.”— Jean-Paul Sartre, amazon.com
“You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“You are a wonderful manifestation. The whole universe has come together to make your existence possible. There is nothing that is not you.”— Thich Nhat Hanh, amazon.com
“We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract. Matter changes hands, atoms flow in and out, molecules pivot, proteins stitch together, mitochondria send out their oxidative dictates; we begin as a microscopic electrical sw…”— Anthony Doerr, amazon.com
“We must have one love, one great love in our life, since it gives us an alibi for all the moments when we are filled with despair.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident.”— Jean-Paul Sartre, newyorker.com
“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”— Jorge Luis Borges, theguardian.com
“We are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives.”— Stephen Jay Gould, amazon.com