Quotes About Existence

Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not be worth that pebble on the path.

Could a man's heart, his soul, perish and yet leave him walking and talking as if alive?

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag, Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]

It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.

Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there.

If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.

Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.

Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?

The unlived life is not worth examining.

God cannot be an object. It is deepest depth of your own being. How can you see it.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

On the day that you were born, you began to die. Do not waste a single moment more!

The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.

Life moved ever outward into infinite possibilities and yet all things were perfect and finished in every single moment, their end attained.

Every single moment of reality instantly turns into memories; reality can not be caught; we can only catch memories.

You are therefore in the process of experiencing yourself by creating yourself anew in every single moment. As am I. Through you.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.

All the money you made will never buy back your soul.

Time is money, every moment is costly, So I ration emotion, 'cause existence exhausts me.

Time can't be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.

Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Whether one has wealth or not, no treasure exceeds the one called life.