Quotes About Existence

Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter to ourselves.

Pure truth no man has seen, nor ever shall know.

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible.

If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.

Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?

I may not be a human, but I am a man.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.

Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.

Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (All The King's Men)

Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and all must go.

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

"Slightly lower than the angels" is a whole lot better than slightly higher than the apes. Let's get the order straight. God, angelic beings, man, animals, and vegetables.

If men must beg to live, May the Creator also go wandering and perish.

I am the man, I suffered, I was there.

A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.

Man is a substantial emigrant on a pilgrimage of being, and it is accordingly meaningless to set limits to what he is capable of being.

Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.

When a man dies, he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.

No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I.

Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.