I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.
Meryl Streep

Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.
Maimonides

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
Otto von Bismarck

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Erich Fromm

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

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
George Santayana

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
George Santayana

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Benjamin Disraeli

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
Benjamin Disraeli

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
William James

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
James Joyce

I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
Emily Bronte

There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
Charles Baudelaire

I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.
David Bowie

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
Norman Mailer

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
Anatole France

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
Quentin Crisp

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
Lin Yutang