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Quotes About Existence

Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein?
~ Robert Frost
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
~ Hannah Arendt
The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.
~ Heraclitus
Man must be invented each day
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The living is a passing traveler; The dead, a man come home.
~ Li Bai
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.
~ Stanley Kubrick
Man never dies, nor is he ever born; bodies die, but he never dies.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Not to be born at all would be the best thing for man.
~ Theognis of Megara
God created man on purpose, and for a purpose.
~ Zig Ziglar
Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is.
~ David O. McKay
The anguish of death hangs over and leads the human spirit to wonder about the mysteries of existence, man's destiny, life, the world.
~ Edgar Morin
But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
~ Francis Bacon
Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.
~ George Berkeley
There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man
~ George Orwell
The center of every man's existence is a dream.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them.
~ Albert Camus
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
~ Andre Gide
What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
~ Ayn Rand
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.
~ Blaise Pascal
Man is to be understood only in his relationship to God.
~ C. S. Lewis