Quotes About Existence

Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.

It is the basic evasion of the essential which is the problem of man.

Life is simply time given to man to learn how to live.

Man must get away from verbal forms to attain the consciousness, that which is there to be perceived at hand.

Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.

Man, at his best, remains a sort of one-lunged animal, never completely rounded and perfect, as a cockroach, say, is perfect.

The existence of illness in the body may no doubt be called a shadow of the true illness which is held by man in his mind.

To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.

And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?

Man and boy, I have lived ever since I can remember.

Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence.

O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?

Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.

L'homme est condamne a' e" tre libre. Man is condemned to be free.

Man always thinks about the past before he dies.

A man who casts no shadow isn't really a man at all.

Man's glory lies not, Lincoln thought, in 'his goodness,' for this is often nonexistent. He derives glory, instead, from his being made in the image of the Living God.

Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

They tell us that plants are not like man immortal, but are perishable-soul -less. I think that is something that we know exactly nothing about.

... a man is a very important thing-maybe more important than a star.

No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.

Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth.

Man is programmed to find the programmer.