We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.
Henry Miller

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
Charles Dickens

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
Charles Dickens

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
H. L. Mencken

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
Ambrose Bierce

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.
Denis Waitley

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
Paul Tillich

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.
Frank Zappa

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
Eric Hoffer

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.
Gertrude Stein

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
Susan Sontag

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
Franz Kafka

I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.
Quentin Tarantino

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

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Edmund Burke

She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
Jack Kevorkian