Quotes About Existence

For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?

But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.

No, he is not a ghost; he is a man of Heaven and earth, that is all.

In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow.

[H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[.

A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.

The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.

Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal

Man is more than half of nature's treasure.

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.

The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

How do I know that there is a God? In the same way that I know, on looking at the sand, when a man or beast has crossed the desert - by His footprints in the world around me.

There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

Life is an unanswered question, but let's believe in the dignity and important of the question.

I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?

He thought of his wife, of his son, of his youth. He thought of life. He thought of death and then he thought of life again.

most of all, a majority of humans refuse to accept that the universe, the world, god(s), are utterly indifferent to our plight.

Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.