Quotes About Existence

My mind still clung to the image of my wife. A thought crossed my mind: I didn't even know if she were still alive. I knew only one thing-which I have learned well by now: Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.

Frankl approvingly quotes the words of Nietzsche: He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How.

W naszych rozwa?aniach wyszli?my od podstawowego fenomenologicznego faktu, a mianowicie tego, i? cz?owiek jest bytem ?wiadomym i odpowiedzialnym, a jego ukoronowaniem jest synteza obu tych cech, to jest ?wiadomo?? w?asnej odpowiedzialno?ci.

Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.

la logoterapia considera que la esencia de la existencia consiste en la capacidad del ser humano para responder responsablemente a las demandas que la vida le plantea en cada situación particular.

It is we ourselves who must answer the questions that life asks of us, and to these questions we can respond only by becoming responsible for our existence.

While we were waiting for the shower, our nakedness was brought home to us: we really had nothing now except our bare bodies—even minus hair; all we possessed, literally, was our naked existence

Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth...In fact freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness.

The truth is that as the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Even more people today have the means to live but no meaning to live for.

I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.

He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live.

Ce n'est rien de mourir, C'est affreux de ne pas vivre.

Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread. a

So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

The infinite exists. It is there. If the infinite had no me, the me would be its limit; it would not be the infinite; in other words, it would not be. But it is. Then it has a me. This me of the infinite is God.

God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.

The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.

I exist, murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone.... There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race.

She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.

Does there exist an Infinity outside ourselves? Is that infinity One, immanent and permanent, necessarily having substance, since He is infinite and if He lacked matter He would be limited, necessarily possessing intelligence since He is infinite and, lacking intelligence, He would be in that sense finite. Does this Infinity inspire in us the idea of essense, while to ourselves we can only attribute the idea of existence? In order words, is He not the whole of which we are but the part?

Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?