Quotes About Existence

The span of a man's life - that is nothing. But what a man makes of that span - that is something. A man must make his own meaning for life. Meaning is not automatically given to life.

A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.

It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.

Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on earth.

Man is a universe in little [Microcosm].

Hell and Heaven are near man, yes, in him; and every man after death goes to that Hell or heaven in which he was, or to his spirit, during his abode in the world.

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense.

Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.

Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.

When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man.

Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.

Birthdays? yes, in a general way; For the most if not for the best of men: You were born (I suppose) on a certain day: So was I: or perhaps in the night: what then?

It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?

Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.

Am I less man because I believe in a greater man?

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be.

Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

For what is man's soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the rough log.

In one sense Brahman is known to every human being; he knows, "I am"; but man does not know himself as he is.