Inspirational Quotes

Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.

Existence Quotes

Awe Existence Exploration Freedom Perspective Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it's like we don't even exist.

Muhammad Ali

Afterlife Desire Existence Heaven Wonder Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.

Louis D. Brandeis

Supreme Court Justice

Existence Mystery Supernatural Time The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.

Anthony Hopkins

Despair Emotional Depth Existence Love of Life There is no love of life without despair of life.

Albert Camus

French philosopher and author

Existence Perseverance Resilience Struggle Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

Carl Sagan

American astronomer and planetary scientist

Existence God Mystery Paradox It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

Blaise Pascal

French Mathematician and Physicist

Existence Future Perspective Reality It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

Conflict Destruction Existence Nature Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

Robert Frost

Benevolence Courage Existence Faith Perception Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to the benevolence of that power. When I look at the universe and all the ways the universe wants to kill us, I find it hard to reconcile that with statements of beneficence.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Existence Search for Meaning Man - a being in search of meaning.

Plato

Existence Human Nature Inseparability Philosophy Virtues and Failings Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

Nikola Tesla

Inventor and Electrical Engineer

Existence Humility Perspective Universe Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

Carl Sagan

American astronomer and planetary scientist

Existence Understanding Being is the great explainer.

Henry David Thoreau

American naturalist and essayist

Existence Fate Mortality Nature's Law Time Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

Nikola Tesla

Inventor and Electrical Engineer

Existence Mortality Reflection Uncertainty Urban Life Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.

Patti Smith

Singer-songwriter and poet

Existence Identity Self-Perception I already am a product.

Lady Gaga

Singer and Actress

Existence Knowledge Morality Responsibility Self-awareness This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.

Rumi

Darkness Desperation Existence Morality Sacrifice If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Khalil Gibran

Poet and Writer

Emotional Needs Existence Inner Feelings Love Self-awareness We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

Blaise Pascal

French Mathematician and Physicist

Empowerment Existence Self-Identity Unity Universe You are the universe, you aren't in the universe.

Eckhart Tolle

Evidence Existence Logic Truth Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Carl Sagan

American astronomer and planetary scientist

Earth Existence Humanity The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Hannah Arendt

American historian and philosopher

Existence Humility Self Reflection Vulnerability I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

Keanu Reeves

Existence Health Isolation Modernity Space Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

Robert Frost

Existence Perception Reality Time The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

Theoretical Physicist

Existence Life and Death Mortality Reflection Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

Enlightenment Existence Purpose As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Carl Jung

Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst

Eternal Existence Mysticism Name Origin The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

Lao Tzu

Chinese philosopher

Existence Uniqueness In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

Albert Camus

French philosopher and author

Art Existence Humanity Spirituality All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.

David Bowie