I have seen very few people. Nessa came again. How painful these meetings are! Let me try to analyse. Perhaps it is that we both feel that we can exist independently of the other. The door shuts between us, and life flows on again and completely removes the trace. That is an absurd exaggeration. Virginia Woolf
The leaf and his body were one. Neither possessed a separate permanent self. Neither could exist independently from the rest of the universe. Nhat Hanh
Hereditary information does not exist independently of its embodiment. Kevin Kelly (editor)
The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do. Wayne W. Dyer
The reality, which communism is creating, is precisely the true basis for rendering it impossible that anything should exist independently of individuals, insofar as reality is only a product of the preceding intercourse of individuals themselves. Karl Marx
Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not. Charles D. Broad