Quotes About Existence

The [Bible's] message is concerned with earth dwellers, their origin, the reason for their existence, the cause of their misery, and the plan of redemption for a fallen race.

Bunny does not want to kill herself. She does not want to die. It's that she no longer wants to live. To not want to be alive is not the same thing as wanting to be dead.

How brief the life allotted us by Fate!

They say they don't understand me. And how could they? I don't understand myself. I mean, is this really me? Or is this just a dream? Maybe I'm merely a spirit floating through ether... and that's why I feel so empty.

I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up and kill it in the evening, which is a bit outrageous, but there you go.

All life is an argument for death.

Disease and sorrow exist, but health is the normal, and joy is the natural, and it is a privilege to live.

To appear for a little time and then vanish away, is the outward biography of all men, a circle of smoke that breaks, a bubble on the stream that bursts, a spark put out by a breath.

Things absolutely necessary to healthy existence were necessarily known from the earliest ages, unless indeed we imagine that the primeval man was created in a state of physical and moral disease, that he might grope and blunder his way into health, as some theorists assert that he groped and blundered his way from a tiger into a moral being, and from a monkey into a man.

When a custom is actually proved to exist, the next enquiry is into the legality of it; for if it is not a good custom it ought to be no longer used.

All dreams are but a single dream.

Humanity lives in its fiction.

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If one wants to live one is better to incline towards imbecility than intelligence, and live only in the absurd. Intelligence consists of eating stars and turning them into dung. And the universe, at the most optimistic estimate, is nothing but God's digestive system.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

The state of man: inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.

Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

"God is, or He is not." But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separated us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager?… If you win, you win everything; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is.

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

What is man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, everything in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.