Quotes About Existence

Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just another man's fantasy.

Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would call that life?

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.

Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have been men, and there would have been no progress in human affairs.

A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.

As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.

Man's experience is indeed a seamless garment, no part of which can be separated from the rest.

Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.

...they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying.

What a man thinks in his spirit in the world, that he does after his departure from the world when he becomes a spirit.

Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation.

Man as a pure animal does not exist

All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.

God is necessary, and therefore must exist...But I know that he does not and cannot exist...Don't you understand that a man with these two thoughts cannot go on living?

The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness; the superior man exults in his gloom.

Man is an abyss, and I turn giddy when I look down into it.

Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.

God sinks into dust before man.

What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: "Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

Every man carries the entire form of human condition.

I had the pleasure of meeting that young man at the Patriarch's Ponds. He almost drove me mad myself, proving to me that I don't exist. But you do believe that it is really I?

The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?