Quotes About Existence

To be alive as a human being is to know, in the same way as it is to have a heart that beats.

Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.

If I'm not a successful human being, who I am?

I'm a human being and every human being has problems.

How we think about the future and the past determines everything about how we think about our situation as human beings.

The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still 'are' human beings, now. Or can be.

I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions.

I guess what I always found funny was the human condition.

For anyone with half a brain they can see that this play is about the human condition.

To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.

If you examine any aspect of the human condition long enough, you really do have to start laughing at it. Because the business of being human is kind of ridiculous.

How do we describe the fact of human existence? At a certain point, perhaps, style fails us. Language, even and in particular at its most evocative, becomes less of an aid and more of a difficulty.

Every literary culture has among its first bearings the 'blether' of animals who seek to make sense of human existence.

The religion I know most about, which is the Christian one, would simply say that it's not really for one man or woman to know fully and to understand the nature of our brief human existence.

I think human nature is eternal and constant.

Human nature being what it is, people don't want to acknowledge that a problem exists when they know they have 35 other problems to deal with.

Every human society has its lights and its shadows. That's the reality of existence.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life.

Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how to die - distinguishes us from other animals. The need to manage death is the particular lot of humanity.

Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will.

Humour is the be-all and end-all medicine of human existence.

Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object.

It is at work everywhere, functioning smoothly at times, at other times in fits and starts. It breathes, it heats, it eats. It shits and fucks. What a mistake to have ever said the id.