Quotes About Existence

Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth.

As leaves on the trees, such is the life of man.

To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.

Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Listen, my friend, all forms that exist in God's universe can be found in the human figure. A man's body and face can tell everything he represents. So how could I ever exhaust my interest in it?

The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man.

Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the Deity.

For the man who thought he was Man there is no salvation.

I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.

I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?

I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.

The man, with his brain, can pierce the intoxicating mirage of things and contemplate a frozen universe in the most perfect indifference to him and his dreams.

I describe a world with no exit, convinced that God accompanies man throughout his history.

Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this land of the gods everlasting?

It is seldom men think of death in the pride of their health and strength.

Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.

I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.

A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.

The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.

Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?

Man's existence precedes his essence

There must be some part of Man that is more than his daily round. Some part of him that will use his profit on a matter of no profit.

To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.