Quotes About Existence

Man is a paradoxical being - the constant glory and scandal of this world.

God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.

We're all worth it, man. We're all worth millions of planets and stars and galaxies and universes.

The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Most men are essentially dead by thirty.

Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying's as natural as living. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.

What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.

I am a 21st century man. I don't believe in magic. I believe in sweat, tears, life and death.

Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.

If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.

Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane.

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

None of the gods has formed the world, nor has any man, it has always been.

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.

I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.

Man cannot stand a meaningless life.

It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image.