Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.

Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

The great object of life is sensation – to feel that we exist, even though in pain.

Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.

The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.

Serenity comes from the ability to say Yes to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say No to the wrong choices made by others.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

Normal people can be happy with a regular life, but there is more to life than just plodding through an average existence.

To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence.

Merely to exist is not enough.

At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people.

And since the portions of the great and the small are equal in number, so too all things would be in everything. Nor is it possible that they should exist apart, but all things have a portion of everything.

Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.

That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.

Rational thinking which is free from assumptions ends therefore in mysticism. To relate oneself in the spirit of reverence for life to the multiform manifestations of the will-to-live which together constitute the world is ethical mysticism. All profound world-view is mysticism, the essence of which is just this: that out of my unsophisticated and naïve existence in the world there comes, as a result of thought about self and the world, spiritual self-devotion to the mysterious infinite Will which is continuously manifested in the universe.

Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels-the biggest sin is to be blind to others problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.

It’s coexistence or no existence.

The world begins to exist when the individual discovers it.

I do not deny God, because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception. I cannot war with a nonentity. If, however, God is affirmed to represent an existence which is distinct from the existence of which I am a mode, and which it is alleged is not the noumenon of which the word I represents only a speciality of phenomena, then I deny God, and affirm that it is impossible God can be.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country… By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level – I mean the wages of decent living.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite – only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety.

A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence.

A hero is someone who rebels, or seems to rebel, against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them, but obviously that can work at moments.

At the center of the universe, is a deep abiding love. We are called to be part of it. We Catholics and Christians are not ashamed to believe this. We invite everyone to accept the challenge to live as if we were all loved into existence.

I suppose, in the end, we journalists try – or should try – to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If we have any reason for our existence, the least must be our ability to report history as it happens so that no one can say: ‘we didn’t know – no one told us.’