Kate's spirits sank to the very bottom of her being and began to prowl around there making a low growling noise.

-Adams, Douglas Noe«  l
  The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, ch.1.

O marciano encontrou-me na rua e teve miedo de minha impossibilidade humana. Como pode existir, penseu consigo, um ser que no existir po‹  e sem tamanha anula c° a‹  o de existe"  ncia? The Martian met me in the streets and was frightened by my human impossibility. He wondered how such a being could exist who could not exist without unmaking so much existence. 16

-Andrade, Carlos Drummond de
Li c° a‹  o de coisas,'Science Fiction'.

Quand me"  me Dieu n'existerait pas, la religion serait encore sainte et divineöDieu est le seul e"  tre qui, pour re¤  gner, n'ait me"  me pas besoin d'exister. Even if God did not exist, religion would still be holyand divine.God isthe only being who, inorder toreign, need not even exist.

-Baudelaire, Charles
  Journaux intimes.'Fuse¤  es', no.1.

L'e"  tre le plus prostitue¤  , c'est l'e"  tre par excellence, c'est Dieu, puisqu'il est l'ami supre"  me pour chaque individu, puisqu'il est le re¤  servoir commun, ine¤  puisable de l'amour. The most prostituted being, the Being par excellence, is God, since he is supreme friend to every individual, since he is the common, inexhaustible reservoir of love.

-Baudelaire, Charles
  Mon coeur mis a'   nu, pt.46.

   Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, viz. that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mindöthat their being is to be perceived or known.

-Berkeley, George
  A  Treatise Concerning The Principles Of Human Knowledge, pt.1, section 6.

For in him we live, and move and have our being.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Acts of the  Apostles17:28.

   How do I love thee? Let me count the ways!ö I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and Ideal Grace.

-Browning, Elizabeth ne¤  e Barrett
  Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 43.

Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that isthe essence of ourbeing.None candefine its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.

-Bush,Vannevar
  Science is Not Enough.

Wearea religiouspeoplewhose institutionspresuppose a Supreme Being.

-Douglas, (George) Norman
  Ruling to allow the release of public school students for religious instruction, 28  Apr.

In sculpture, did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoo«  n how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.

-Emerson, RalphWaldo
the 1841  'Thoughts on  Art', in The Dial, vol.1, no.3,  Jan.

Je tiens a'   mon imperfection comme a'   ma raison d'e"  tre. I hold on to my imperfection as tightly as my reason for being.

-Thibault
  Le Jardin d'Epicure.

   Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its ownmelting. A poemmay be worked overonce it isin being, but may not be worried into being.

-Frost, Robert Lee
  'The Figure a Poem Makes', preface to Collected Poems.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our very being.

-[great soul]
  War or Peace,'Young India'.

Cansado, sobre todo, de estar siempre conmigo, de hallarme cada d|¤a, cuando termina el suen‹  o, all |¤ , donde me encuentre, con las mismas narices y con las mismas piernas. Tired, above all, of being always with myself, of finding myself everyday, when the dream comes to an end, wherever I am, with the same old nose and with the same old legs.

-Girondo, Oliverio
  Persuasio¤  n de los d|¤  as,'Cansancio' ('Fatigue').

For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?

-Gray,Thomas
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.85^8.

   Thegreat and solemnspiritthat pervadestheintellectual

-Hume, David
Scottish  philosopher  and  historian.  His  most  important  work, the   empiricist   A  Treatise   of   Human   Nature,   was   published anonymously (1739^40). He published a five-volume History  of England (1754^62) andwas secretary to theBritish Ambassador in Paris (1763^5).

The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

-Kundera, Milan
   Title of novel.

To be no more; sad cure; for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion?

-Milton,John
  Belial. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.2, l.146^51.

Heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being. Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there Live, in what state, condition, or degree, Contented that thus far hath been revealed Not of earth only but of highest heav'n.

-Milton,John
  Raphael to  Adam. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.8, l.172^8.

Apparently the average man sees woman alternatelyas an inferior being and as an angel.

-Muir,Willa (Wilhelmina) Johnstone ne¤  e  Anderson also
  Women:  An Inquiry, pt.1, published as Hogarth Essay no.10 in The Hogarth Essays (Second Series,1926).