Quotes About Existence

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.

He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.

We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.

In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

And as long as man has walked on this Earth, there has been God. And man's purpose is for the glorification of God.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

Man always thinks about the past before he dies, as if he were frantically searching for proof that he truly lived.

Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.

Man is ruled by Earth. Earth is ruled by Heaven. Heaven is ruled by the Way. The Way is ruled by itself.

Man is a greater miracle than any god he ever invented.

Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author.

If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.

Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man.

And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you-- it's born with us the day that we are born.

I am a man for whom the outside world exists.

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

Man lives for science as well as bread.