#exist

I want my name to mean me. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#authority

Scars exist to show that I existed. I myself don’t have any scars, but every single one of my friends has a healed up knife wound deep in their back.
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— Jarod Kintz

#existence #scars #betrayal

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. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#self #struggle

It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#cynic #existence #suicide #cynicism

This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world. ↗

— Raymond Carver

#gazebo #pessimism #pessimism

Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #end #endless #eternity #existence

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#jean-paul-sartre #language #the-plague #existentialism

You don't have to stay anywhere forever. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#existentialism

Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été. ↗

— Albert Camus

#hope #philosophy #existentialism

If you can imagine a thing, then it has already existed, somewhere, somewhen, somehow. ↗

— Toba Beta

#imagination #imagination