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Quotes About Existence

If a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.
~ Lionel Barrymore
An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.
~ Lord Chesterfield
How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul.
~ Lori Lansens
The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live in the world.
~ Louise Bernikow
Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?
~ Madame de Stael
Man is neither mere intellect not the gross animal body, nor the heart or soul alone.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Man alone is made in the image of God.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The first kind of evil is that which is caused to man by the circumstance that he is subject to genesis and destruction, or that he possesses a body.
~ Maimonides
The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.
~ Marcus Aurelius
A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.
~ Marcus Aurelius
What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?
~ Margaret Atwood
You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
~ Marianne Moore
in my opinion, the Divine is revealed to all men once at least in their lives.
~ Marie Corelli
The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of them. Well, this world isn't one either.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.
~ Mark Twain
To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.
~ Martin Buber
To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more.
~ Mary Stewart
Man invented the gods. Then the gods went off on their own, but not far.
~ Mason Cooley
One of my problems is to find the Ego, which has only one form and is immortal - to find it in animals and men, in the heaven and in the hell which together form the world in which we live.
~ Max Beckmann
What kind of man refers to himself as safely dead?
~ Megan Whalen Turner