Quotes About Existence

God cannot be found on a microscopic slide, but in the hearts of men.

A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.

Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul is unsourced, and he has no images by which to abide.

Man pines to live but cannot endure the days of his life.

Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.

Men are but men; we did not make ourselves.

This vast and solid earth, that blazing sun, Those skies, thro' which it rolls, must all have end. What then is man? The smallest part of nothing.

Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says so?

Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.

Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.

Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet.

A man does not exist until he is drunk.

It is Mystery - the mystery any one man or woman can feel but not understand as the meaning of any event - or accident - in any life on earth.

The life of men is painful.

I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.

It is the lot of man but once to die.

Imagine for a moment that you were God. Not God as a man or woman, but God as the awareness of all life. To be that in physical form is to be an enlightened person.

Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.

Man makes god in his own image.

The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.

Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.

It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!

Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.