Quotes about Existence
God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
— Francis de Sales
Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.
— Marc Chagall
This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.
— Abraham Lincoln
Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
— Marcus Aurelius
The truth is that most mission work is carried out where the church already exists Only small percentages are working where the church is non-existent.
— George Verwer
The 1980s were fantastic. This was a time when we were at the peak of our creative work. The question of whether we would exist or not - something which everybody used to ask, including ourselves - stopped. Profits kept pace with growth requirements. HCL had credibility - that was the biggest barrier we had to break.
— Shiv Nadar
Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments
— Oscar Wilde
One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.
— Oscar Wilde
We all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man - that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
— Oscar Wilde
It is to do nothing that the elect exist. Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.
— Oscar Wilde
The only real people are the people who never existed, and if a novelist is base enough to go to life for his personages he should at least pretend that they are creations, and not boast of them as copies. The justification of a character in a novel is not that other persons are what they are, but that the author is what he is. Otherwise the novel is not a work of art.
— Oscar Wilde