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Quotes About Existence

Electronic man has no physical body.
~ Marshall McLuhan
It seems to me that it will be very wearisome to be a man.
~ Pierre Loti
All the communions of a life-time are one communion.All the communions of all men now living are one communion.All the communions of all men, present, past and future, are one communion.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
~ Pindar
In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.
~ Pope John Paul II
Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Only man has become an outsider - and because of his own efforts. On his own, he has separated himself from existence.
~ Rajneesh
There's too much beauty upon this earth For lonely men to bear.
~ Richard Le Gallienne
Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.
~ Albert Camus
Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
~ Anne Carson
Man - a figment of God's imagination.
~ Mark Twain
If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
To see men admitting that you are what you believe yourself to be, is one of the triumphs of existence.
~ Mary Catherwood
Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
~ Matthew Arnold
There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist.
~ Max Eastman
Mortal man! You've wasted your time mostly with wrong and empty beliefs! And now you have started understanding that most important thing in life is existence!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man is the ant of the Universe; He is not an important creature, at least at the moment!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made.
~ Michael Morpurgo
The fundamental axiom, then, for the study of man is the existence of individual consciousness
~ Murray Rothbard
There's no escape. I'm God's only man.
~ Paul Schrader
A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other.
~ Octavio Paz