My Existence Quotes

I have church on Sunday."
"Of course you do."
"You're welcome to come along."
"Thanks, but I'm allergic to incense."
"That's a shame."
"It's the bane of my existence."
- Beth and Jake
- Alexandra Adornetto

Long since, the desert wind wiped away our footprints in the sand. But at every second of my existence, I remember what happened, and you still walk in my dreams and in my reality. Thank you for having crossed my path.
- Paulo Coelho

I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past; reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing.
- Isabel Allende

I am serving the purpose for which I was designed, therefore I am satisfied with my existence.
- Kevin J Anderson

Where is the bane of my existence?"
"In the shower, freshening up."
Damn it all to hell. "Oh God, who did Ascanio screw now?"
"No, no, he's covered in blood."
"Oh good." Wait a minute. "The kid is covered in blood and we're relieved. There is something wrong with us.
- Ilona Andrews

The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may not be bright and promising. Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.
- Maya Angelou

It had insta-love, the bane of my existence. Girl sees boy and falls in love. Immediately. Soul mate, breath stealing, toes curling, love after one conversation. Boy pushes girl away for some paranormal reason or another. Girl still loves boy. Boy finally admits love.
- Jennifer L Armentrout

I wake up, but where? I don't just think this, I actually voice the question to myself: "Where am I?" As if I didn't know: I'm here. In my life. A feature of the world that is my existence.
- Haruki Murakami

I was in my house, alone in the living room, anxious about you, watching the flashes of lightning. And a flash of lightning lit up this truth for me, right in front of my eye. That night i lost you, I lost something inside me. Or perhaps several things. Something central to my existence, the very support for who I am as a person
- Haruki Murakami

Like a bloomed bouquet of gardenias, her smile gave purpose to my existence. Dion Kleon - Men of the Cave
- Marisette Burgess

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.
- Giacomo Casanova

All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
- Prince Charles

I avoided my own friends and acquaintances, yet the loneliness of my existence was insupportable.
- Agatha Christie

To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence
- Billy Corgan

I try to find meaning anywhere I can. It's the only way I know how to validate my existence.
- Tiffanie Debartolo

You hear, Eugene?' said Lightwood over his shoulder. 'You are deeply interested in lime.'
'Without lime,' returned that unmoved barrister at law, 'my existence would be unilluminated by a ray of hope.
- Charles Dickens

I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.
- Meister Eckhart

And there is no better reason for preferring this elderberry bush than that it stirs an early memory, that it is no novelty in my life, speaking to me merely through my present sensibilities to form and colour, but the long companion of my existence that wove itself into my joys when joys were vivid.
- George Eliot

I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell.
- Kim Elizabeth

Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people.
- Annie Ernaux

My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.
- Abel Ferrara

I want to run or die or get fucked up. I want to be blind and dumb and have no heart. I want to crawl in a hole and never come out. I want to wipe my existence straight off the map. Straight off the fucking map.
- James Frey

I love you" I said, causing his face to contort in pain." I'm not a man so I do not have a heart that loves as a human does. I'm an immortal god that dwells with supreme power because I hold the keys to death. But you are my existence. I am yours.
- Abbi Glines

My existence was never a Francis Ford Coppola existence.
- Victoria Gotti

Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh had gone through; I dream of what it may go through. I record here the actions of optical nerves, of taste buds, of sensory perception. And, I think: I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence.
- Sylvia Plath

I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence.
- Sylvia Plath

The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted.
- Laurence Housman

My life is a code within a code, and I'll crack both like two eggs and eat my existence like an omelet.
- Jarod Kintz

Back in the autumn I had awakened to a growing darkness and cacophony, as if something in the depths were crying out. A whole chorus of voices. Orphaned voices. They seemed to speak for all the unlived parts of me, and they came with a force and dazzle that I couldn't contain. They seemed to explode the boundaries of my existence. I know now that they were the clamor of a new self struggling to be born.
- Sue Monk Kidd

There are so many moments to remember and sometimes I think that maybe we're not really people at all. Maybe moments are what we are.... Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.
- Markus Zusak

Beautiful women are the torment of my existence.
- Markus Zusak

Sometimes I just survive.
But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.
- Markus Zusak

As a child I first became aware that my existence had a purpose when I realized men lusted after me. And that's why I will lust forever after men. Before I even began to worry about homework or any of those school things, I began having secret liaisons with men. And it is men who give me the proof I need now to feel I'm alive.
- Natsuo Kirino

Every time I change wives I should burn the last one. That way I'd be rid of them. They wouldn't be around to complicate my existence. Maybe, that would bring back my youth, too. You kill the woman and you wipe out the past she represents.
- Pablo Picasso

Delusions are a vital part of my existence.
- Jason Krumbine

Denial is an essential part of my existence. Without it, I am nothing.
- Jason Krumbine

I'm a Cynster--I've been raised to acquire, defend, and protect. My family is the core of my existence--without a family, without children, I'd have nothing to protect, no reason to acquire.
- Stephanie Laurens

I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.
- Lucy Lawless

It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense.
- Thomas Ligotti

Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer.
- Lori Loughlin

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.
- Shirley Maclaine

I want to dive into his being, experience him with all 5 senses, drown in the waves of wonder enveloping my existence.
- Tahereh Mafi

There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.
- Alberto Manguel

This morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come to life because I open them and turn their pages, and yet they don't know that I am their reader.
- Alberto Manguel

My existence shrank from an arrow of light pointing into the future forever to a speck of light that was the present moment. I got better at living in that point of light, making the world into that point. I paid close attention to it. I loved it very much.
- Sarah Manguso

Thank you...for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.
- Richard Matheson

You are so inconvenient to my existence. That I can't even stand to look at you. I look at myself in the mirror. And you stare back. You are me and I am you. This inconvenient existence. One living, the other dying. You consume my existence. And I let you. 'Cause I love you.
- Abria Mattina

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.
- Thomas Merton

You are...Well, not exactly the love of my life, because I expect to love you for much longer than that. The love of my existence. -Bella
- Stephenie Meyer

You know, Jacob, if it weren't for the fact that we're natural enemies and that you're also trying to steal away the reason for my existence, I might actually like you."
"Maybe...if you weren't a disgusting vampire who was planning to suck out the life of the girl I love...well, no, not even then.
- Stephenie Meyer

I would know of myself through the witnessing and naming of others. As Jesus in the Gospels is only seen and spoken of and recorded by others. I would know my existence and the value of that existence through others' eyes, which I believed I could trust as I could not trust my own.
- Joyce Carol Oates

For a long time now I haven't existed. I'm utterly calm. No one distinguishes me from who I am. I just felt myself breath as if I'd done something new, or done it late. I'm beginning to be conscious of being conscious. Perhaps tomorrow I will wake up to myself and resume the course of my existence. I don't know if that will make more happy or less. I don't know anything.
- Fernando Pessoa

I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.
- Keanu Reeves

The featureless trundle of my existence began to change. At the time, I didn't have the insight to wonder at the transient nature of despair, but now that I'm older I've seen how little it takes to turn a person's life around for better or worse. An event will do, or an idea. Another person. An idea of a person
- Meg Rosoff

I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.
- Carlos Santana

I want to kiss your forehead; my love now is so evolved. I want to hold your hand and see all the little marks and nicks and find out how they happened. I want to assimilate myself in your identity, to have my existence intertwined with yours. I want to know what all stories still lie hidden in you.'
('Left from Dhakeshwari')
- Kunal Sen

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.
- Georg Simmel

I found Esau's field guide at the bottom of my pack. Taking a candle into the bedroom, I read his book until my eyes grew heavy. From his vast notes, it seemed that almost every plant and tree in the jungle had a reason for existing.
I caught myself wishing there was a page in his guide that had my picture on it with the reason for my existence written underneath in Esau's neat hand.
- Maria V Snyder

Because looking at you is like falling into a black holestupid, confusing, and probably
detrimental to my existence.
- Kimberly Spencer

In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.
- Donna Tartt

Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.
- Brent Weeks

So I leave proof of my existence behind me like a snail trail with the small hope that years of talking at me will someday soften her enough to talk with me, that she'll finally pull the knife from my chest and say yes, we are better off without him. That what happened wasn't my fault and from now on she will thrust herself between me and danger, and shout NO.
- Laura Wiess

I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel