(1472 quotes found)
“We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.”
Ayn Rand
“If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,”
George MacDonald
“No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.”
W. C. Fields
“When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality”
Henry David Thoreau
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
Albert Camus
“From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and al”
Ernest Hemingway
“Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life.”
Charlotte Bunch
“A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work at moments. It can't be a lasting thing. That's not saying that people shouldn't keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war.”
Jim Morrison
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