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There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. — Carson McCullers

Suffering is intrinsic to human existence. There is no joy without its attendant pain. — Peter Ackroyd

Luck really has nothing to do with human existence, since God is not a random God. — Monica Johnson

Human-caused climate change threatens almost every aspect of human existence. — Alan Lowenthal

I feel worn down as a human being who has to constantly justify their existence to other human beings because I'm a minority — Killer Mike

Poetry is the imitation of the most important aspect of human existence life and that's what make's it so beautiful and necessary. — Nicolas Saperstein

Every literary culture has among its first bearings the 'blether' of animals who seek to make sense of human existence. — Andrew O'Hagan

Nothing on earth puts more pressure on the human mind than nothing. — Stefan Zweig

For death and the disease that is its harbinger are the most brutal reminders of the radical finitude of human existence. — Jeffrey P. Bishop

Only photography has been able to divide human life
into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence. — Eadweard Muybridge

Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence. — Henri Nouwen

[H]e had this view of things - that most human activity was utter folly, his own included, and that his existence in the world made others nervous. — David Guterson

For those who were born lovers, falling in love is not neither an option nor a decision. it is a matter of existence. — Sameh Elsayed

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being. — C. G. Jung

The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have. — Paul Fleischman

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water. — James Buchan

But was the prototype of human existence; it was the original pattern or the archetype on which our life here below had been modeled. — Karen Armstrong

In the course of our eternal existence, we spend infinitely more time in the spirit world on the other side than we spend in the human world on earth. — Sylvia Browne

Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations. — Anthony Daniels

As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence. — Yahya Jammeh

Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. — Gretchen Rubin

Everyone gets forgotten because of Alzheimer's, ignored because of ignorance about oneself and replaced because of trying to stay in the same place. — Amit Abraham

To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence. — R.C. Sproul

What is it about the human face that it should be the most memorable thing in existence and yet its atoms are the quickest to disperse? — Marius Kociejowski

The savings bank of human existence is the weekly Sabbath. — William Blaikie

Dreams fuel human beings imaginative response to existence. — Kilroy J. Oldster

A superficial education would be worse than none. But a full education would open every man's eyes to the nature of human existence. — Gore Vidal

Compassion was the most important, perhaps the sole law of human existence. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I believe that the question of the existence of God is an impenetrable mystery and beyond human comprehension. — Vincent Bugliosi

My ultimate research goal is to transform our human existence to just eating, sleeping, drinking, playing - nevermind. — Luis Von Ahn

Life and art are nothing but associations of ideas and sorrows that nourish our illusory quest for the Holy Grail of human existence. It's a mystery! — Carl William Brown

The human body is river of intelligence, energy and information that is constantly renewing itself in every second of its existence. — Deepak Chopra

Love is the grounding of our existence as humans and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings. — Humberto Maturana

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. — Erich Fromm

Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence
priceless and irreplaceable. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Ceremony-the wine of human existence - Morris R. Cohen — Barbara Jonas

Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin. — Albert Camus

Human existence is as a result of the product of time — Sunday Adelaja

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. — William Blake

Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence. — Tennessee Williams

To have never done anything but make the eighteenth part of a pin, is a sorry account for a human being to give of his existence. — Jean-Baptiste Say

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence. — Jim Harrison

To YoYo Ma: You playing is the best argument I've ever heard for the existence of God, because I don't really believe a human alone can do this. — Steve Jobs

To sin means to miss the mark, as an archer who misses the target, so to sin means to miss the point of human existence. — Eckhart Tolle

This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief. — Adolf Hitler

Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience. — Jaggi Vasudev

There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences. — Clarice Lispector

There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine! — Abraham Kuyper

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? — Milan Kundera

Peace is a civil right which makes other human rights possible. Peace is a precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued existence. — Dennis Kucinich

Human beings and the environment compose a seamless garment of existence, a multicolored cloth, which we believe to be woven in its entirety by God. — Bartholomaus

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence. — Herbert Read

Emotions - Happiness, anger, jealousy ... is the mind experiencing "presence" in our holographic existence. — Clyde DeSouza

Time is simply the measurement of human progression against that of existence. — Gerald M. Givens

All growth toward perfection is but a returning to original existence. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Happiness is the primary goal of human existence. — Joey Lawsin

Hegel said that 'truth' is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any 'truth' above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge. — Jostein Gaarder

Kennedy's guy had never been the same. Quit the Service, divorced, finished his human existence in obscurity in some rat's hole in Mississippi, — David Baldacci

No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence — Smiley Blanton

All human existence is a trick of light. — Don DeLillo

Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being ... Language should be more than just getting by. — Chogyam Trungpa

Philosophy ... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence. — Nikolai Berdyaev

At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life. — Anthony Kennedy

WHEN WE ARE OPEN AND GIVING OF OUR LIGHT, WE CREATE AN ENDLESS REFLECTION THAT OUTLIVES OUR HUMAN EXISTENCE. — Gary L. Friedman

The anguish of death hangs over and leads the human spirit to wonder about the mysteries of existence, man's destiny, life, the world. — Edgar Morin

Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, the fear instinct. — Boris Sidis

The homelessness of nature, its utter indifference to human existence, disclose to the infinite player that nature is the genius of the dramatic. — James P. Carse

I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings. — Werner Herzog

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?' — Robert Fulghum

True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch. — Tiffany Madison

Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence. — Daniel Barenboim

One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself. — Norman Vincent Peale

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence. — Joseph Conrad

We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence. — Jean Toomer

If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about? — Camille Flammarion

Wild animals are only wild to save their existence...for their survival; but human animals are wild to do harm to their own species — Munia Khan

There is more to human existence and to reality itself than current science can ever give us access to. — Dalai Lama XIV

One of the deepest needs of the human soul is for centeredness ... which confers meaning on the shapelessness of temporal existence. — William Everson

I think the dual existence thing is a regular pastime for all human beings, and for that matter anything in this universe. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Human love is to devote a part of ourselves to the providence of another existence. To be without this devotion is to be void of love. — Michael Hollingworth

the only way to eliminate hypocrisy from human existence is to abandon all principles whatsoever; — Theodore Dalrymple

Peace is not a luxury. It's not an option. It is fundamental to the existence and well-being of a human being to have peace in their life. — Prem Rawat

Anthropocentrism, regarding human kind as the very center and pinnacle of existence, is a disease of arrested development. — Michael Fox

The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory. — Giacomo Casanova

I like to express true emotions under the cover of melancholy: It includes fulfilment and pain, which describes human existence. — Volker Bertelmann

It's a metaphor of human bloody existence, a dragon. And if that wasn't bad enough, it's also a bloody great hot flying thing. — Terry Pratchett

Social existence remains a dream only because the thoughts and feelings of the human animal are blocked off from the simple and obvious. — Wilhelm Reich

I would always love this fragile human girl, for the rest of my limitless existence. — Stephenie Meyer

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat. — Jose Saramago

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being. — Milan Kundera

Each character is an allegory for every aspect of human existence. — Vanna Bonta

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself. — William Blake

I don't know jack about wine, sorry." "You should learn. It is one of the true and ancient pleasures that make human existence tolerable. — Douglas Preston

The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. — Francis Bacon

You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence
-Eli — Sarah Dessen

Economics brings into view that conflict of choice is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence. — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence. — Angela Davis

The human emotions are worthy of nothing when our existence has no realistic value. — M.F. Moonzajer

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence. — Carl Jung

I can explain my body and my brain, but there's something more. I can't explain my own existence - what makes me a unique human being. — John Eccles