Quotes About Existence

The First Man is completely autobiographical. The mother [Albert Camus] describes is the woman I knew, and she was exactly as he describes her. And this teacher really existed.

There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.

I grow aware of various forms of man and of myself. I am form and I am formless, I am life and I am matter, mortal and immortal. I am one and many -- myself and humanity in flux.

Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.

The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.

In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.

What worth was a man who could not be haunted?

Faculty X is a sense of reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of it—fragmentary and uncertain though it is—that distinguishes man from all other animals.

Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love the man who stands for us.

The world could only be known as it existed in men's hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them.

He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.

O, Heart, remember thee That Man is none, Save One.

Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.

If Adam had had a real hairy back, we probably wouldn't be here today.

One cannot pass by without thinking of the density of men in the ground.

If any thing can be predicated as universally true of uncultivated man, it is that he will not labour beyond what is absolutely necessary to maintain his existence.

Trust is one of the fundamentals of human existence. We need to be able to trust one another. A man who can no longer trust anyone will become sick.

Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.

I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.

There's no man on this earth can even be assured he'll have a next day.

We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a thousand years shining and whole.

The system of life on this planet is so astoundingly complex that it was a long time before man even realized that it was a system at all and that it wasn't something that was just there.

When skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man

How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?