personal existence Quotes

I am myself and I am here.

Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other "higher" ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.

I have to live my life, and it is the only one I’ll ever have.

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.

While I am a single-issue voter, I certainly don't live a single-issue existence. Many causes affect my family and me, and I intend to be a voice for those as well.

I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office.

I have a body, but I am not my body. I have a face, but I am not my face.

I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence.

When I can't see myself in the mirror, I can't even feel myself, and I begin to wonder if I exist at all.

To take, for example, my own death: what I consider most likely to be true is that death will be the complete and utter end of my existence, with no successor existence of any kind that can be related to me as I now am. And if that is not the case, the next most likely scenario, it seems to me, is something along the lines indicated by Schopenhauer. But neither of these is what I most want. What I want to be true is that I have an individual, innermost self, a soul, which is the real me and which survives my death. That too could be true. But alas, I do not believe it.

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

My body is the shape I live in and it shapes the way I live.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

I'm obviously fighting for my community simply because I'm trans, and I have to do that, and I do it because that's my existence. I wake up in the morning, and that is my activism.

If "freedom" means, first of all, the responsibility of every individual for the rational determination of his own personal, professional and social existence, then there is no greater fear than that of the establishment of general freedom.

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

I'm petrified of reincarnation because, you know, I like being me.

I have thought about this often - I don't know much of the life I was before I was born. I don't know of a future after I am gone. What I know is the life I have right now.

There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.

An 'I' without a body is a possibility. But a body without an 'I' is utterly impossible.

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.

Don't be absent from your own life.

The sacrifice of personal existence is necessary to secure the preservation of the species.

The individuals who seem to us most outstanding, who are honored with the name of genius, are those who have proposed to enact the fate of all humanity in their personal existences.