Quotes About Existence

Fish live in water. Men die in it.Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us at the speed of days and nights. And we call it love.

The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.

Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life.

Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.

People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing.

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.

Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?

Man lives on earth not once, but three times: the first stage of his life is his continual sleep; the second, sleeping and waking by turns; the third, waking forever.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

If all the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players, where do all the audiences come from?

We must guarantee the quality of the existence of the men and women of tomorrow.

Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man

Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of reality--where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.

Men die and they are not happy.

Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence.

The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.

Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.

Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.