"I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence."

Existence, Mind, Quotations, Struggle

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"I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence."

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"Life is not a discrete phenomenon it is a part of an intelligent cosmic field. It is a cosmic dance."

Amit Ray, Indian Author

Existence, Life, Universe, Connection, Energy

"He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Existence, Freedom, Happiness, Paradox, Philosophy

"There are two important days in your life. The day you discovered you were alive and the day you forgot about it."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Existence, Life, Awareness, Discovery

"Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

Existence, Pleasure, Sleep, Body, Soul

"You call forth the world which God has formed and that world only. Nor is this life of yours by which you set such store your doing, however you may choose to tell it. Its shape was forced in the void at the onset and all talk of what might otherwise have been is senseless for there is no otherwise. Of what could it be made? Where be hid? Or how make its appearance? The probability fo the actual is absolute. That we have no power to guess it out beforehand makes it no less certain. That we may imagine alternate histories means nothing at all."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

Existence, Fate, Life, Creation, Determinism

"Existentialism's first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibility of his existence rest on him."

Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher

Existence, Responsibility, Self, Freedom

"But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man."

Tom Robbins, American Author

Existence, Humanity, Nature, Death, Survival

"To live was to be a fragment of the cosmere that was experiencing itself."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

Existence, Life, Universe, Experience

"It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality."

Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Spanish Novelist

Existence, Reality, Survival, Illusion, Life

"When we get down to the very basics of human life we find that we arrive to take a ride on spaceship Earth for several decades and then we leave."

Steven Magee, British Author

Existence, Life, Journey, Earth

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"Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects."

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"Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve."

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"Life is not a discrete phenomenon it is a part of an intelligent cosmic field. It is a cosmic dance."

"He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree."

"There are two important days in your life. The day you discovered you were alive and the day you forgot about it."

"Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part."

"Existentialism's first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibility of his existence rest on him."

"But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man."

"To live was to be a fragment of the cosmere that was experiencing itself."

"It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality."

"When we get down to the very basics of human life we find that we arrive to take a ride on spaceship Earth for several decades and then we leave."

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"Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings."

"There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing."

"Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame."

"The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend."

"His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar."

"Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!"

"Suspense is worse than disappointment."

"Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects."

"Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve."

"The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn."