Quotes About Existence

Human beings are so depressing.

There might be different ways of being dead. Like there are different ways of believing God.

anxiety is out of place in the present moment. It depends on the past and the future for its existence. This understanding matters if you hope to let go of your struggle with anxiety.

Everyone who is alive has a ghost inside them, don't they?

The real quality of existence lies in our thoughts, which wear no silks and taste no ice creams.

Every man is on earth to symbolize something he is ignorant of.

The steps a man takes from the day of his birth until that of his death trace in time an inconceivable figure.

No one gets out of here alive.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

Existence is sometimes what a forward artillery observer sees of enemy lines through field glasses. A distant and troubling view brought suddenly into focus with a wealth of obscene detail. It

Someone—Plato, I think—once said, 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' " "True. But a life too closely scrutinized will lead to madness, if not suicide.

It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.

It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.

The Polito form is dead, insect. Are you afraid? What is it you fear? The end of your trivial existence? When the history of my glory is written, your species shall only be a footnote to my magnificence.

Vive, vivió, vivirá. Muere, murió, morirá.

Green humanism? What's that? Humanism for little green men?

it is possible that we are the only persons,> said another robot.

The fourteen conscious robots contemplated their cosmic loneliness for several milliseconds.

S]he had difficulty crediting it could really happen in her own lifetime. She knew this was exactly how people would feel just before the real apocalypse, that nearly everyone who'd faced some intrusive threat to their everyday existence – war, revolution, genocide, purges, disaster – had faced it with the firm conviction that things like this just didn't happen or didn't happen here or didn't happen to people like them.

a sadness in living beyond extinction,

We come to this work because the alternative, being consumed by the effort to ignore the mystery of being, is no longer acceptable.

According to Carl Rogers, the burgeoning of personal growth was stimulated by the decline of organized religious beliefs and the need to find alternative sources of meaning in existence

El mundo nunca había cambiado tan rápido como ahora. Nuestra mayor esperanza de cara al futuro es desarrollar un nuevo paradigma de la capacidad para llegar a una nueva dimensión de la existencia humana

Is life essentially accidental and meaningless, or is it as profound and mysterious as Shakespeare's great tragic hero believed it to be?