Quotes About Existence

The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.

The grace and beauty of life will be clean gone when we all become useful men.

Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with the idea of its death as a species.

The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.

That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so pursues pleasure as not to give for it more than it is worth.

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.

Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small and unimportant planet? Or is he what he appears to Hamlet? Is he perhaps both as once?

I do wish I believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind of machine endowed, unhappily for himself, with consciousness.

In a very real sense, the suffering of this world was created by man himself.

He (man) is both dust of earth and breath of God.

(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.

How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.

Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.

And the formation of man is the most pressing problem facing humanity.

Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire?

Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.

Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat.

I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man.

Sins are timeless. Sins are an everyday reality for every one. Sin has been in existence since the beginning of man, since Adam and Eve. It will always be pertinent.

Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.

Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.

[Albert Camus] is The First Man because he is poor, which has never been much to human beings.