Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
O. Henry

Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being.
David Packard

It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire is at stake.
Paul von Hindenburg

Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation.
Theodor Herzl

The existence of law is one thing; its merit or demerit is another.
J. L. Austin

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
Jacques Lacan

We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.
Stephen Ambrose

God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.
Donald Knuth

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
Tom Wolfe

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
Andre Breton

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
Georges Bataille

If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.
David Hilbert

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
David Herbert Lawrence

There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results.
Aldrich Ames

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
Walter Benjamin

There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
Bela Lugosi

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
William Cowper

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
B. R. Ambedkar

I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.
Elizabeth Wurtzel