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He barely heard the gasp escape her lips, but he did see her brilliant brown eyes, how they danced with alarm at his presence, how her lips trembled slightly with what she had done, yes, and now for the glare in his eyes. He knew she could see the hunger they held, he knew she could see, in that moment, just who he truly was...what he was. Yes, Christian knew she could see all these things, knew she could do nothing but bask in the monster that he was.Which was why he was not surprised when she stepped toward him, her shaking lips moving, allowing the low sound of her voice, her sweet, drawing voice, to enter his terribly haunted ears, the ears that caught every breath, heard every pulse of scared heart:“My Lord...your eyes....”“Yes,” he barely whispered, the word hardly escaping his throat. The hunger was all he could feel, her blood all he could smell, the pulse of lust just there beneath her skin, calling him, drawing him ever closer.... And yes, he felt the skin of her neck, felt the blood just there, her blood...his food.
— S.C. Parris, The Immortal's Guide
She is so tiresome. ‘Am I a vampire, am I a wolf, am I a vampire, am I a wolf, I cannot decide, so I’ll be both!
— Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura
Okay, okay, okay … go to your corners, boys. This is a nice Aubusson carpet you’re standing on. You get blood on it and I’ll have Fritz so far up my ass I’ll be coughing on his hankie.
— J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
For most vampires, it's an automatic response - scent blood, fangs drop.
— J.A. London, Darkness Before Dawn
The weight of the dead was heavier than the pounds of the body.
— J.R. Ward, Lover Avenged
How could I persuade the in-laws I was the right one for their daughter when, instead of focusing on small talk, all I could think about was not to kill them? I could only imagine what I'd say to the prospective in-laws, "Hello, it's a pleasure to eat, I mean, meet you.
— Jayde Scott
Vampires used to be the Dracula types, but in the last ten years most of them have become weak, brooding androgynes that only go after teenagers. A friend of mine took the opportunity to rid his whole city of them after the forth Mormon Vamps book hit and the sparkle meme was at its strongest.""So does that make Ms. Mormon Sparkle Vamp a hero?""Of a sort. Before they started to sparkle, there were a lot of vamps who were tortured antiheroes, thanks to Rice and Whedon."Ree grimaced. "Do you know if she was clued in?"Eastwood shrugged. "She's very secretive, no one in the Underground has been able to say for sure. It's all rumor. My guess is she lost someone to a vampire and decided the greatest revenge she could inflict was to turn them into a laughing stock.
— Michael R. Underwood, Geekomancy
Don’t tell them he’s upstairs , I commanded my brain. Tell them he moved to Pacoima to start a commune for vegetarian vampires. Tell them he’s looking into getting a sex-change operation and renaming himself Lulu Pleshette.
— Molly Harper, The Care and Feeding of Stray Vampires
The day stared back an empty gray, with not a speck of white to give character to the lifeless sky.
— Ashley Madau
~I gripped the knife even tighter. Far off in the distance, I could still hear them speaking, but only one thing was clear in my mind: Trevor, my father, was going to die.From that moment on, I was Chloe Kallistrate, a vampire hunter.~
— Jennifer Malone Wright, The Vampire Hunter's Daughter
My problem wasn’t that he was a vamp, or that he was gay. I didn’t like him because he was a politician.
— Chantal Halpin, Foul is Fair
This,” Alaric explained to Sarah in what he thought was a kindly voice, “isn’t love you’re feeling. Only dopamine. Because Felix isn’t like anyone else you know. Being a creature of the night, he’s new and exciting and activates a neurotransmitter in your brain that releases feelings of euphoria when you’re around him…especially because you know you can never actually be together, and he seems complicated, and perhaps even sensitive and vulnerable at times. But I can assure you: he’s anything but.”“How dare you?” Sarah demanded hotly. “It isn’t dopa…whatever! It’s love! Love!
— Meg Cabot, Insatiable
When he whispered my name, that's when I knew- this was how death felt.
— Ashley Madau
I come from a long line of body snatchers, probably the top-notch body snatchers in America. No make that the world. Some people might think it's gross digging up bones or corpses, but who asked them? It's no big deal, but then I've been doing it since I got out of diapers.
— Minda Webber
I don't know if i can," I said, looking up into Archer's eyes. "Honestly, Archer....I'm tired of being scared, tired of loving you on one hand and hating you on the other.
— J.L. McCoy, The Original Sin
Vampires were myths, childhood stories– as were werewolves, mermaids and dragons. I believed none of it.
— Ashley Madau
Tied to the physical, deaf to the eternal, riveted by my own shortcomings, I was thinking only of what a bad choice I'd made when choosing a partner for a chat. This guy was faking timidity to lure someone over. If I said victim, he was likely to start gnawing my neck. If I said vampire, he would demand proof. I hadn't the fangs enough to back that pretension.
— Christine Wicker, Not In Kansas Anymore
This isn’t the girl I fell in love with. My sweet, giving, patient, loving, caring, fun-loving Skye disappeared when you were kidnapped. I’m so scared I’ll never get her back.
— J.L. McCoy, The Original Sin
If a faerie, a vampire, and a demon walk into a bar, you wait for the punch line. At Private Eye, when a faerie, a vampire, and a demon walk through the door, it’s just another day at the office.
— E.J. Stevens, Blood and Mistletoe
You guys just aren’t fair, between your vampire pheromones and your gorgeous good looks, we humans just don’t stand a chance.
— J.L. McCoy, The Original Sin
I've had a few intense arguments with my boss who happens to be the object of my sexual fantasies.
— J.L. McCoy, The Original Sin
I’m coming, you impatient old coot! Keep your panties on!”-Skye yelling back to Hagan.
— J.L. McCoy, The Original Sin
Because, my dear Eric, I have tasted the secret knowledge. I know how much to say and when to pull back. I know what to see and not see. And now that I have become whole again, I can never go back. All these things he has given me. Better than my supposed mother and father ever could. For that, I owe him my life and allegiance.
— Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura
Make no excuses for the devils that will not excuse you of their burdens, Miss Crane." - Darien Nicodemeus; Chapter Sixteen - The Giant's Return
— S.C. Parris, The Immortal's Guide
How does one go on after doing such unspeakable things? It'sall rather simple, really," he continued, speaking in someone else's voice. "Say to yourself, 'What things?' And it becomes clear...you are blameless. They brought it on themselves. What have they ever done for you except control your life? They tore you away from your sister; they ripped you from your home. Did you ask to be saved? No! Forget them and start over...with us, your true family, my Corcitura, my own.
— Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura
With bells on babe" Dean purred sexily and hung up.
— J.L. McCoy, The Original Sin
Just because you don't know how to do something doesn't mean it can't be done.
— Jeaniene Frost, At Grave's End
I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys.
— Laurell K. Hamilton, Bullet
Common courtesy dictates that we never drain the lifeblood of anyone to whom we've been formally introduced.
— Kelley Armstrong, Stolen
No idea how you figured out the riddle, but you scooped the first prize. Congratulations. You've just won a vacation to a big, relaxing place called a grave.
— Jayde Scott
I'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people.
— Scott Westerfeld, Peeps
Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum.
— Anne Rice
There were glowing pumpkins and ghost lights in the yard and cheerful looking spiders and vampire posters everywhere.  “This is just disgusting,” Abel said in disgust, landing on a happy mummy poster staked in the yard.  “Must everything be commercialized these days?  I’m surprised the vampires don’t sparkle.
— John H. Carroll, Unholy Cow
Lestat: You're very anxious to be out of these rooms, aren't you? Why don't we simply get into bed together? I don't understand.David: You're serious?Lestat: Of courseDavid: You do realize, that this is an absolutely magnificent body, don't you? I mean you aren't insensible to the fact that you've been deposited in a...a most impressive piece of young male flesh.Lestat: I looked it over well before the switch, remember? Why is it you don't want to..David: You've been with a woman, haven't you?Lestat: I wish you hadn't read my mind. It's rude. Besides, what does that matter to you?David: A woman you loved.Lestat: I have always loved both men and women.David: That's a slightly different use of the word 'love.
— Anne Rice
I had to wonder, though, if there's something about a murderer, particularly a confident one, that gives him a certain charisma or charm that I, in particular, am susceptible to.I mean, there's a reason more women are attracted to Dracula than repelled by him.I made a resolution to myself. From now on, I'd assume that every man I was attracted to was a murderer until proven otherwise.Perhaps it wasn't the most promising strategy for starting a relationship, but I might live longer.
— Lee Goldberg, Mr. Monk on the Couch
I happen to be partial to humans - most, anyway. Clowns, not so much. Those evil bastards never stop smiling.
— Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, Accidentally Married to...a Vampire?
Do you think the Devil is real then?” she asked. If God wasn’t up in heaven answering a desperate mother’s prayers then maybe Satan didn’t exist either.“He is real,” Gabriel answered quietly, his voice almost a whisper. “I look him in the eye every day.
— Evangeline Ravencraft, Fallen
I touched the small sacred images. I shook my head and bit my lip, as if to say, How awful that he should have stolen these! But I also found it very funny. And further proof that God had no power over me.
— Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
Lestat: I despise you! I ought to destroy you-finish what I started when I made you. Turn you into ashes and sift them through my hands. You know that I could do it! Like that! Like the snap of mortal fingers, I could do it. Burn you as I burnt your little house. And nothing could save you, nothing at all.
— Anne Rice
The Shrink always warned me that carriers stay wracked with lifelong guilt. It's not an uplifting thing having turned lovers into monsters. We feel bad that we haven't turned into monsters ourselves--survivor's guilt, that's called. And we feel a bit stupid that we didn't notice our own symptoms earlier. I mean, I'd been sort of wondering why the Atkins diet was giving me night vision. But that hadn't seemed like something to worry about...
— Scott Westerfeld, Peeps
Ranerio wrapped his hand around mine, guiding my fingers like Lucius had done when he'd shown me the latch behind the dressing-room door mirror. But while the warrior I loved had been offering me an escape route, the pacifist was trying to show me how to fight.
— Beth Fantaskey, Jessica Rules the Dark Side
I feel like I'm forgetting something. Vyrus. Clans. Zombies. Stay out of the sun. Don't get shot. Abandon your life. Drink blood to survive. No, guess that pretty much covers it.
— Charlie Huston, Every Last Drop
Vampires, bringing America together!
— Charlaine Harris, Dead in the Family
Vampires don't tan. Without UV protection, we get sunburned, heal, and just repeat the process over and over.” — Spade, First Drop of Crimson by Jeaniene Frost
— Jeaniene Frost
What’s ‘at supposed tae mean?” He asked insulted.“Everyone always has an ulterior motive.” I replied.“Well I dinnae, an’ I’m nae claimin’ tae be innocent. I was lookin’ fur ye, as per yer mother’s request. Nae hidden agenda here!” He said sternly. “Besides, if I wanted ye dead, you’d be dead.” He stressed out the last part.
— S.L. Ross
Vampirism is not a contagious disease.
— Alex   Taylor, The Wannabe Vampire
I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.
— Ken Kesey, Kesey's Garage Sale
Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?
— Mo Yan, Red Sorghum
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 Gaiman, The Books of Magic
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 Levi
Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron.
— Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness
When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples.
— Stephen Crane, The Open Boat
Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life outside his or her own sphere - the sudden revelation that there is a there out there.
— Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
AGE DIFFERENCEWhat if I told you that one day you will meet a girl who is unlike anyone else you've known. She will know all the right things to say, what makes you laugh, what turns you on, what drives you wild and best of all, you will do for her exactly what she does for you."When will I meet her?"Well let's put it this way, she doesn't even exist yet.
— Lang Leav
It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible — incompletely and minimally existent, in fact. It seemed to me that I made no impact on the world, and that in exchange I was privileged to watch it unawares.
— Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence.
— Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock
I kept running around it in large or small circles, always looking for someone or something able to convince me of my Belovedness.Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "Beloved". Being the Beloved expresses the core truth of our existence.
— Henri J.M. Nouwen, Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World
Here, fire turns into water;Here, the dancing of the rain declares the sun.There's no opposition in existence, no contradiction;Everything supports everything else.
— Osho
Anything, anything to stop drowning in this dull, trivial and cowardly existence.
— Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
— Sholem Asch
We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.
— Emil M. Cioran
Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent.
— Brian Greene
If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.
— Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World
Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy.
— Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World
The existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority.
— Philip K. Dick, The Minority Report
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
...I take as a point of departure the possibility and desirability of a fundamentally different form of society--call it communism, if you will--in which men and women, freed from the pressures of scarcity and from the insecurity of everyday existence under capitalism, shape their own lives. Collectively they decide who, how, when, and what shall be produced.
— Michael Burawoy, Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism
You were right," said the Master impressed by the neatness of Korovyov's work, "when you said: no documents, no person. So that means I don't exist since I don't have any documents.
— Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not existand the one who exists I do not see.
— Kedar Joshi
Love is the linchpin that connects the material world with higher levels of existence.
— Julianne Davidow
Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.
— Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Leaving a place, a person or a country silently and without any notice is a heroic and a noble way of teaching the importance of your presence to those who ignore your existence!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Have patience with all things but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You are perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs or tribulations can ever change that.
— Saint Frances de Sales
I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.
— Stanisław Lem, Solaris by Stanislaw Lem | Summary & Study Guide
Whatever begins to exist has a cause.
— Glenn Meade, The Second Messiah
The only time "early bloomer" has ever been applied to me is vis-a-vis my premature apprehension of the deep dread-of-existence thing. In all other cases, I plod and tromp along. My knuckles? Well dragged.
— Colson Whitehead, Sag Harbor
It is natural that people should differ most, and most violently, about the unknowable . . . There is all the room in the world for divergence of opinion about something that, so far as we can realistically perceive, does not exist.
— E. Haldeman-Julius
The West Indian is not exactly hostile to change, but he is not much inclined to believe in it. This comes from a piece of wisdom that his climate of eternal summer teaches him. It is that, under all the parade of human effort and noise, today is like yesterday, and tomorrow will be like today; that existence is a wheel of recurring patterns from which no one escapes; that all anybody does in this life is live for a while and then die for good, without finding out much; and that therefore the idea is to take things easy and enjoy the passing time under the sun. The white people charging hopefully around the islands these days in the noon glare, making deals, bulldozing airstrips, hammering up hotels, laying out marinas, opening new banks, night clubs, and gift shops, are to him merely a passing plague. They have come before and gone before.
— Herman Wouk, Don't Stop the Carnival
Remember all ye that existence is pure joy
—  that all the sorrows are but as shadows
Happiness isn't something she spends much time thinking about. Survival, discomfort, hunger...these are the concerns that fill her days.
— David Maine, Fallen
When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many different kinds; there's only one kind. It uses about fifty fundamental biological building blocks, organic molecules.
— Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
It's idiotic, it's crazy. If you die and then you're just nothing, there isn't any point to anything. Why do we live at all if we die and stop being? Father wasn't ready to be stopped. No one's ready to be stopped. We don't have *time* to be ready to be stopped. It's all crazy. . . . Look at my glasses. I can't even see that there are any stars in the sky without them, but it's not the glasses that are doing the seeing, it's me, Madeleine. I don't think Father's eyes are seeing now, but *he* is. And maybe his brain isn't thinking, but a brain's just something to think through, the way my glasses are something to see through.
— Madeleine L'Engle, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother
Savor your existence. Live every moment. Do not waste a breath.
— Nando Parrado, Miracle in the Andes
But “nowhere” does not mean nothing; rather, region in general lies therein, and disclosedness of the world in general for essentially spatial being-in. Therefore, what is threatening cannot come closer from a definite direction within nearness, it is already “there” - and yet nowhere. It is so near that it is oppressive and takes one’s breath - and yet it is nowhere.
— Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
There are moments, such as the one that oppresses me now, when I feel my own self far more than I feel external things, and everything transforms into a night of rain and mud where, lost in the solitude of an out-of-the-way station, I wait interminably for the next third-class train.
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Man’s guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.
— Don DeLillo, White Noise
Just existing is where a lot of living happens.
— Fred Gallagher
How did I make a living? I haven't. I have eked out an existence." - Ella Baker
— Gail Collins, When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present
Occasionally I glanced at the big blue cradle of civilization hanging in the sky, remembered for the fiftieth or sixtieth or one hundredth time that none of this had any right to be happening, and reminded myself for the fiftieth or sixtieth or one hundredth time that the only sane response was to continue carrying the tune.
— Adam-Troy Castro, Alien Contact
Maps codify the miracle of existence.
— Nicholas Crane, Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet
I murmur: "It's a seat," a little like an exorcism. But the word stays on my lips: it refuses to go and put itself on the thing. It stays what it is, with its red plush, thousands of little red paws in the air, all still, little dead paws. This enormous belly turned upward, bleeding, inflated—bloated with all its dead paws, this belly floating in this car, in this grey sky, is not a seat. It could just as well be a dead donkey tossed about in the water, floating with the current, belly in the air in a great grey river, a river of floods; and I could be sitting on the donkey's belly, my feet dangling in the clear water.
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.
— Augustine Birrell
free fall to your quite smile to capture you and you propel me to death, all that we write destroys then heals
— Gwen Calvo
Being, as the basic theme of philosophy, is no class or genus of entities; yet it pertains to every entity. Its 'universality' is to be sought higher up. Being and the structure of Being lie beyond every entity and every possible character which an entity may possess. *Being is a transcendens pure and simple*. And the transcendence of Dasein's Being is distinctive in that it implies the possibility and the necessity of the most radical *individuation*. Every disclosure of Being as the *transcendens* is *transcendental* knowledge. *Phenomenological truth (the disclosedness of Being) is veritas transcendentalis*.Ontology and phenomenology are not two distinct philosophical disciplines among others. These terms characterize philosophy itself with regard to its object and its way of treating that object. Philosophy is universal phenomenological ontology, and takes its departure from the hermeneutic of Dasein, which, as an analytic of *existence*, has made fast the guide-line for all philosophical inquiry at the point where it *arises* and to which it *returns*."―from_Being and Time_. Translated by John Macquarrie & Edward Robinson, p. 62
— Martin Heidegger
If what you want does not exist, why not create it?
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
The Lord has made all things for Himself (Prov.xvi.4): apart from Himself there existed nothing to make them for. He made them for His own sake, for His own pleasure. But it was His pleasure to bring into existence things that could take pleasure in existence. For our sakes He made us for His sake. To us there is something mysterious in an altruism so total, but something exciting in the mystery. Among all the mysteries, many are greater, but it is hard to think of one more pleasing.
— Frank Sheed, Theology and Sanity
Actually there were only two forms of existence, I reflected: one that was tied to a place and one that wasn't. Both had always existed. Neither could be chosen.
— Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 5
Consume life before it spoils.
— Todd Crawshaw, Exploits of the Satyr
In the vast spectrum of space-time’s coeternal continuum, I am but a glint of bundled energy held together by the translucent fiber of creative consciousness. The misty dew of private thoughts that inhabit my streaky underworld briefly forms a splintery part of the glittering arena of the cosmos. In the ether-like dawn of my awakening, my minuscule arch appears intravenously injected amid the dark matter of the nightscape. Reminiscent of the morning’s dew, my comet’s tailed reflection disintegrates and dissipates without a lasting trace in the dawn of a new age. I shall never wholly cease to exist, since my filtrate potentiality – a trace of my essence – remains suspended forevermore in celestial wonderment.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
I reach my object and say, Wander no more. All else is trial and make-believe.
— Virginia Woolf, The Waves
being is one day and a million nights. the blood on the glass, blood lust with the sun holding. the universe beats for the lost and found. with you.
— Gwen Calvo, Cocaine Masks: Cocaine Masks
The fish don't need to know why they're in the water.
— Marty Rubin
The earth keeps turning but it never says why.
— Marty Rubin
And the existence is tedious, anyway; it is a senseless, dirty business, this life.
— Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya
It was if, in the process of its long and arduous journey from Afghanistan's mines to Europe's canvases, and its painful evolution from barren beginnings, ultramarine had collected and purified all the wisdom of the different worlds it traversed, retaining only what was common to then, and what was most important. This pure, clean color evokes undulating infinity, that delicate moment between day and night, an image of man constantly drifting between existence and non-existence.
— Mileta Prodanović, Ultramarin: roman bez slika
I suspect there is something in our very mode of thought which makes it inevitable that we should always be baffled by actual existence, whatever character actual existence may have.
— C.S. Lewis, The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis
Even more, in the created thing, is a perfection that she exists; since the greatest of all imperfections is, not to exist.
— Baruch Spinoza
Seeing the skylines The heart becomes pensive and still; Mammoth is the world,Our existence…almost nil!
— Neelam Saxena Chandra
Philosophic questions are attempts to understand the root nature of reality, existence, and knowledge.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Our obsession for success, recognition and supremacy in all circumstances without ever aware of the gravity of the situation and the subtle intricacies that impact the fabric of the society as a whole has made us more inhuman than humanly possible, as a result we have become more artificial, with not even an iota of LIFE throbbing within Us. Humanity as a whole has come to this juncture, wherein if we don't dare to accept and act on our vulnerabilities, our shortcomings in totality and to embrace failures in same breath as success as an integral part of life, then I fear we are creating a world of zombies!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
How much dust can a body make? Little specks of death. Measuring life in millimeters.
— Ryan Galloway, Biome
To simply survive appears to be the choice of the plodding hoards that wander all around me. Therefore, I’ve adamantly committed to never hoard hoards.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Isn't Existence is the only thing that make us feel as ONE.
— Pawan Parashar
They had nothing in common except for existing in the same time and space
— Pascal Garnier, Too Close to the Edge
Lucifer endears himself to us only as the Lord of Lies, for in this role he is most convincing as a character, which is to say, as a fiction that has been so fully realized that he misguides us with a false feeling of our own reality because we are the ones who made him: he is subordinate to us, especially in the art of lying. For the acephalics among us who have said that the Devil’s greatest trick was convincing the world that he did not exist, it must be said back: if he did not exist, then neither would we.
— Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
I wasn't living, just existing.
— Victoria Spry, Tortured: Abused and neglected by Britain's most sadistic mum. This is my story of survival.
The man who carries a parcel is anxious not to lose it -- he is parcel-conscious. The man who cherishes the feeling 'I am' is self-conscious. The jnani holds on to nothing and cannot be said to be conscious. And yet he is not unconscious. He is the very heart of awareness. We call him digambara clothed in space, the Naked One, beyond all appearance. There is no name and shape under which he may be said to exist, yet he is the only one that truly is.
— Nisargadatta Maharaj
Might it have been nothing but life itself? Life; this limitless complex sea, filled with assorted flotsam, brimming with capricious, violent, and yet eternally transparent blues and greens.
— Yukio Mishima, Thirst for Love
I, on the other hand, felt as I always have, like I were water seeping from a broken pot; I existed but had no form to hold me in place.
— Krishna Udayasankar, Three
Every once in a while, and it happens only several times a year if I am lucky, I will feel astonishment that I exist, that I am sitting, standing, perceiving, and that others perceive me...It is probably a good thing I am not always so aware of my existence because otherwise I would walk about in a haze of wonder embracing things.
— Meia Geddes, Love Letters to the World
The order of the universe is like a gem with many facets, and we see only one, that which reflects the existence of our own world.
— Raymond E. Feist, Rage of a Demon King
A million coincidences had to occur in order for you to exist
— Dan Howell and Phil Lester
Although this was not a comforting point of view, he did not reject it, because it coincided with one of his basic beliefs: that a man must at all costs keep some part of himself outside and beyond life. If he should ever for an instant cease doubting, accept wholly the truth of what his senses conveyed to him, he would be dislodged from the solid ground to which he clung and swept along with the current, having lost all objective sense, totally involved with existence.
— Paul Bowles, The Spider's House
He had a third martini. He looked at me intently and took hold of my arm. 'Look', he said. 'You're a fish in a pond. It's drying up. You have to mutate into an amphibian, but someone keeps hanging on to you and telling you to stay in the pond, everything's going to be all right.
— Jack Kerouac, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
The question of being is the darkest in all philosophy.
— William James, Some Problems of Philosophy: A Beginning of an Introduction to Philosophy
Enjoy the time of existence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Close your eyes because all the great sounds of existence can best be heard with eyes shut!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
For you to exist on earth, downplay on the religious factor.
— Sunday Adelaja
There are things we do automatically, our body, acting on its own, avoids inconvenience whenever possible, that is why we sleep on the eve of battle or execution, and why ultimately we die when we can no longer bear the harsh light of existence.
— José Saramago, The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
Who can live without eating? A farmer is a great hero because he fights for our existence! If anyone deserves a medal of existence in a country, that person should be a farmer!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
After that, we were like flies stuck in honey, alive but not really living.
— Martha Hall Kelly, Lilac Girls
Nihilists embrace life's existence by the acceptance of nothingness
— Martijn Budel
I am a cypher...I carry no weight, no worth, no influence. I represent nothing. I do not exist.
— Brunonia Barry, The Fifth Petal
Sounds of Time rattles the silence of Reality. An illusion pierces through similar existence and creates a conflict zone.
— Amitav Chowdhury
In one form or the other, the quest for human dignity has proved to be one of the most propulsive elements for wars, civil strife and willing sacrifice. Yet the entitlement to dignity, enshrined among the 'human rights', does not aspire to being the most self-evident, essential need for human survival, such as food, or physical health. Compared to that other candidate for the basic impulse of human existence - self-preservation - it may even be deemed self-indulgent.
— Wole Soyinka, Climate of Fear: The Quest for Dignity in a Dehumanized World
Tao simply means the ultimate principle that binds the whole existence together. Existence is not a chaos; that much is certain. It is a cosmos. There is immense order in it, intrinsic order in it, and the name of that order is Tao.
— Osho, Absolute Tao: Talks on Fragments from "Tao Te Ching" by Lao Tzu
Never forget your roots, it's the foundation that builds your existence and the secret to your future.
— Cherry MPIO
Questions... I question that... and than... soona I am going to question and my existence.
— Deyth Banger
Yes, yes, yes, he felt uncontrollable tenderness for his own shit-filled life. And a laughable hunger for more. More defeat! More disappointment! More deceit! More loneliness! More arthritis! More missionaries! God willing, more cunt! More disastrous entanglement in everything. For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can't beat the nasty side of existence.
— Philip Roth, Sabbath's Theater
As soon as I decided I'd have to dig down still deeper to uncover the root of my listless withdrawal from life, I became aware of some interference from the past distracting and confusing my thoughts, causing me a sensation that was at the same time oppressive, expectant and empty. In these somewhat contradictory feelings, I came to recognize my childish sense of having run down like a clock that needed someone to wind it before it could go again; and saw that I was now no less helpless than in those far-off days when I waited for somebody to take me by the hand and tell me what to do. On my own initiative I could do nothing, take no responsibility, make no decisions only watch my existence unroll.
— Anna Kavan, Guilty
Sitting here, literally amongst the dead, reckoning up gains and losses, casting accounts, I have come to see gains that cannot be reckoned in terms of wealth, and losses that are more damaging than loss of a crop... I look at the River and I see the lifeblood of Egypt that has existed before we lived and that will exist after we die... Life and death, Renisenb, are not of such great account.
— Agatha Christie, Death Comes as the End
It does not matter what kind of self-destruction you choose – as if the protagonists in Furmani – Sokolov let say conscious of inevitability of their ontological and eschatological destiny, which they by no means want to change, but they accept it with joy of their own and peculiar optimism. Someone buries herself/himself in the library, and someone in a suburban tavern – they would say – the result is the same. The starting point is always that of futility, and the ultimate goal is destruction, which leads to self-destruction of all that restrains them from the total immersion in their own suffering and the pain of their own existence.
— Ivo Žurić
We cannot exist without water.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When you doubt the existence of God, you essentially doubt your own existence because we were all made in the image of God. Genesis 1:27.
— Felix Wantang, God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible
All of us has a blink of an eye existence, so why are we living a mediocre life? AnewMy soul aches..For new adventuresBizarre, grotesque, funHappiness and pleasuresLiving in slow-paceRealize it is graceThe place for my soulHeart centered arrowRebelling against the windThe universe and starsHome for body, stubborn heartLove who?Beauty in awe Finds it within blueWidens sorrowTruth withinLove everlastingPain is fairTo start anew....
— Smae Duavis
A person experiences anxiety when they realize their insignificance in the cosmic field, which present state of angst can exacerbated by other confusing life questions.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
It was that Moment when your fingers touched my skin for the first time I realised, how the fire can heal scars.
— Akshay Vasu
We always look for everything in the immediate proximity, that is a mistake.
— Thomas Bernhard, Gehen
There is no other space, no other time. This moment is all. In this moment the whole existence converges, in this moment all is available.
— Osho, Zen: The Path of Paradox
Everything existed at God’s command.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Some are condemned to remain mere “clock and smart phone watchers”, inasmuch as they are not able to read and interpret the lines of their life or don't even treasure the enchantment of daily captivating moments. If we are not prepared to give some personal time to social time, we walk like blind men through gloomy alleys of our existence. ( " Please. Just a bit of a chat " )
— Erik Pevernagie
He looks at houses, chateaus, forests, and thinks about the countless generations who used to see those things and who are gone now; and he understands that everything he is seeing is oblivion; pure oblivion, the oblivion whose absolute state will soon be achieved, the moment he himself is gone. And again I think about the obvious idea (that astoundingly obvious idea) that everything that exists (nation, thought, music) can also not exist.
— Milan Kundera, Encounter
Because you don't get to choose your parents, K, and at some point you realise that maybe your parents just aren't able to parent very well, but we exist, and the only choice we've got in the whole situation is whether we're gonna love them anyway. It's as simple and messy and complicated as that
— Megan Jacobson
I have spent these last two days in concentrated introspection," said Cutie, "and the results have been most interesting. I began at the one sure assumption I felt permitted to make.I, myself, exist, because I think-"Powell groaned, "Oh, Jupiter, a robot Descartes!""Who's Descartes?" demanded Donovan. "Listen, do we have to sit here and listen to this metal maniac-""Keep quiet, Mike!"Cutie continued imperturbably, "And the question that immediately arose was: Just what is the cause of my existence?"Powell's jaw set lumpily. "You're being foolish. I told you already that we made you.""And if you don't believe us," added Donovan, "we'll gladly take you apart!"The robot spread his strong hands in a deprecatory gesture, "I accept nothing on authority. A hypothesis must be backed by reason, or else it is worthless - and it goes against all the dictates of logic to suppose that you made me."Powell dropped a restraining arm upon Donovan's suddenly unched fist. "Just why do you say that?"Cutie laughed. It was a very inhuman laugh - the most machine-like utterance he had yet given vent to. It was sharp and explosive, as regular as a metronome and as uninflected."Look at you," he said finally. "I say this in no spirit of contempt, but look at you! The material you are made of is soft and flabby, lacking endurance and strength, depending for energy upon the inefficient oxidation of organic material - like that." He pointed a disapproving finger at what remained of Donovan's sandwich. "Periodically you pass into a coma and the least variation in temperature, air ressure, humidity, or radiation intensity impairs your efficiency. You are _makeshift_."I, on the other hand, am a finished product. I absorb electrical energy directly and utilize it with an almost one hundred percent efficiency. I am composed of strong metal, am continuously conscious, and can stand extremes of environment easily. These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, smashes your silly hypothesis to nothing.
— Isaac Asimov
Just living is not always living. Look at your life. Can you call it a blessing? Can you call it a gift? A present of existence? Would you want this life to be given to you again and again?
— Osho, Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously
He falls in love because he doesnt want to.
— Gwen Calvo
Perhaps it's true that all men love their fathers, no matter how terrible the things they do to their sons: there is a part of us that remains forever in debt to those responsible for our existence.
— John Connolly, The Reapers
My poems - they sprang from the depths of my being.
— Roseville Nidea
My existence is just an unfamiliar name and nothing else.
— Tanmaya Guru
What job a fascinating view does, apart from fascinating you? It does this: It perfectly motivates you to love existence much more than you can love!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Today we take for granted that we are we. Yet the doubt about ourselves still exists, or has even grown.
— Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom
If the context is lost and merely bits and pieces remain from a scattered existence, only the connection of anchor points may reinstate a distorted mental balance in an upset life story. ("Lost the global story." )
— Erik Pevernagie
Why are we so afraid to die? Are we concerned about the reckoning we may have to face on the other side? Or does the thought of our nonexistence terrify us? Perhaps neither. Perhaps what we fear most is no longer being able to do the things we love.
— Fabrizio Paterlini
It is now how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it (the world) exists at all.....
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
And what does it amount to?" said Satan, with his evil chuckle. "Nothing at all. You gain nothing; you always come out where you went in. For a million years the race has gone on monotonously propagating itself and monotonously reperforming this dull nonsense--to what end? No wisdom can guess! Who gets a profit out of it? Nobody but a parcel of usurping little monarchs and nobilities who despise you; would feel defiled if you touched them; would shut the door in your face if you proposed to call; whom you slave for, fight for, die for, and are not ashamed of it, but proud; whose existence is a perpetual insult to you and you are afraid to resent it; who are mendicants supported by your alms, yet assume toward you the airs of benefactor toward beggar; who address you in the language of master to slave, and are answered in the language of slave to master; who are worshiped by you with your mouth, while in your heart--if you have one--you despise yourselves for it. The first man was a hypocrite and a coward, qualities which have not yet failed in his line; it is the foundation upon which all civilizations have been built.
— Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger
I’ve wanted many things in my life until I met you. Then I wanted nothing … except you. My existence is for you…” he looks at Ocean “… every part of you. Never doubt my love for you. If I’m breathing, I’m loving you. Only you … always you … forever you.
— Jewel E. Ann, Undeniably You
... each of us describes our existence by means of objects which are indifferent to us, which survive us, and which are then thrown back into the common stock from which they are soon gathered again and ascribed other roles in other circumstances.
— Andrew Motion
I feel therefore I am.
— Amit Abraham
I am because I feel.
— Amit Abraham
Life is an activity with which we kill time while we wait for something, someone, or the mere passage of time to kill us.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Forget the soul. No such ghost in the machine. What happens to our mind befalls our body also. The condition of the body is also the state of the mind.
— Salman Rushdie, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
ARE YOU LIVING THE LIFE THAT YOUR MAKER INTENDED? Does your life lack the flavor, the crackle, the intensity you've hoped for?Daily, we find ourselves bombarded by a thousand recommendations for extending the duration of our lives - exercise three times weekly! smoke in moderation! exchange sugar for saccharine! - but the truth is that time does not gain value by accruing. Time acquires value by being "spent," and spent freely. The longest life is not always the best one; in the marjority of cases, just the opposite. If you are, in fact, living the life that your maker intended - it may be time to seek another maker.
— John Wray, The Lost Time Accidents
Existence simply responds to you: whatsoever you are, existence gives you more of that. If you have many flowers within your being flowering, a million times more flowers will shower on you.
— Osho, And The Flowers Showered Discourses On Zen
In a lifeworld, where we can be what we are, and not what people expect us to be, we can escape a blank and void existence, which is linked to wrecking ennui. Boredom often slips into revulsion and nausea, for not being able to find an identity and not succeeding in acquiring individuality with the quality of authenticity. ("Like a frozen image")
— Erik Pevernagie
Simulant - something that doesn't exist but pretends to....Dissimulant - an object that exists but pretends not to.
— Stanisław Lem, The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
A calendar was hung in the kitchen as if to say: Expect more of the same.
— Gary Lutz
When we do not succeed to be ourselves, we finally realize that is was completely useless to exist...
— Hugo Pratt
What mattered was that the room over the junk-shop should exist. To know that it was there, inviolate, was almost the same as being in it. The room was a world, a pocket of the past where extinct animals could walk.
— George Orwell, 1984
Sometimes it’s like that in life too. We look into a past that no longer exists, looking as if it’s real. We hold onto things in our life that there’s no reason to hold onto anymore because, unlike the stars, they don’t bring us beauty, they bring us pain.
— Charlene Carr, Skinny Me
His head was pounding and his vision skewed in some way and he was vaguely amazed at being alive and not sure that it was worth it.
— Cormac McCarthy
Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed?
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
Endurance, I reminded myself, is the true measure of existence.
— Anthony Marra, The Tsar of Love and Techno
Just as the world spun us into existence, it will spin on long after we are gone.
— Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 3
There is no elegance in this existence, nor grace in our lives. There is nothing poetic about feasting on blood that spills from torn flesh...
— Narayan Liu, The Masks of Monsters
Look! Why want anything more marvellous than what is.
— Diana Athill, Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things That Matter
Love is a promise existence makes with us.
— Vatsal Surti, To Desire
When a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moment, past, present, future, always have existed, always will exist.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
There was existence in oblivion
—  there is you in oblivion.