Quotes About Existence

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.

It's like we've entered a separate reality. Like now it's just the two of us, nothing else matters, no one exists.

Whatever it is, it is older than I am. It is ancient. It is from the very deepest parts of life.

Without contraries there is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate are necessary to human existence.

For every thing exists & not one sigh nor smile nor tear, One hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

He who binds to himself a joy Does the wingèd life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise.

I see the Past, Present & Future existing all at once Before me.

The Christians were the first to make the existence of Satan a dogma of the Church.... what is the use in a Pope, if there is no Devil?

Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself.

Everything that is, was, and will be, eternally IS, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in their ideal Form.

The futility of bourgeois existence is extended to be that of the human situation in general, of existence per se.

La vie ludique est totalement incompatible avec la réalité existante. Tant pis pour la « réalité », ce trou noir qui aspire toute vitalité et nous prive du peu de vie qui distingue encore l'existence humaine de la simple survie.

Mythology is what never was, but always is.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

How many roads must a man walk downBefore you call him a man?…The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,The answer is blowin' in the wind.

I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

The animal is the city where I live. In the black fur the ground breathes.

A civil society cannot exist without effective corporate governance to best deploy its economic and social capital.

I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.

man was so engineered by God that the presence of the Creator within the creature is indispensable to his humanity.