Quotes About Existence

Every form of causeless self-doubt, every feeling of inferiority and secret unworthiness is, in fact, man's hidden dread of his inability to deal with existence.

Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.

The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."

The world is a philosophical prison and Man is the philosophical prisoner.

If God spent 180 million years making dinosaurs, what makes us think Man is so special, a tick of the clock before midnight?

God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man.

For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.

Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

For each man there awaits... a particular image capable of annihilating the entire universe.

Well, so it must be, for as man saw reality, so it became.

While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.

Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.

Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.

Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of existence for him.

How much does a man live, after all?/ Does he live a thousand days, or one only? For a week, or for several centuries?/ How long does a man spend dying?/ What does it mean to say 'for ever'?

What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.

As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence for the man who has an overpowering dread of solitude.

The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.

Every man is an impossibility until he is born.