Quotes About Existence

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

Vaster is Man than his works.

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.

A man is nothing but breath and shadow.

Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.

With out some kind of god, man is not very intresting

Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness.

To Contemplation's sober eye. / Such is the race of Man.

It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what is?" He could not endure those remembered words.

The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.

At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.

Tinsel in February, tinsel in August. There are things in a man besides his reason.

Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

We agree that man was not created to survive in space.

Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.

any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man

If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?

There's place and means for every man alive.

I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.

Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering