Existence proverbs

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◆ There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are worlds of the human imagination: their reality, or lack of reality, is not important. What is important is that they are there. these worlds provide an alternative. Provide an escape. Provide a threat. Provide a dream, and power; provide refuge, and pain. They give your world meaning. They do not exist; and thus they are all that matters.

- Neil Gaiman99

◆ 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-Exupéry99

◆ Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.

- Warsan Shire99

◆ I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.

- Salman Rushdie99

◆ Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.

- Cormac McCarthy99

◆ Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron.

- Eoin Colfer99

◆ Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

- Bob Dylan99

◆ Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.

- Primo Levi99

◆ Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.

- Arthur Schopenhauer99

◆ Scars exist to show that I existed. I myself don't have any scars, but every single one of my friends has a healed up knife wound deep in their back.?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.

- Rachel Carson99

◆ Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with.

- Christopher Hitchens99

◆ It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.

- H.P. Lovecraft99

◆ Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limit of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.

- Milan Kundera99