Quotes About Existence

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.

If God had not made Sherry, how imperfect his work would have been.

Whereas it is difficult for everything to work out easily, A man cannot even afford to be a human

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.

I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.

It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered?

Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae.

My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere.

It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.

Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gatt gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk. The dear God has made the whole numbers, all the rest is man's work.

Man in the world's life works out the dreams of God.

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.

It is paradoxical but nonetheless true that the nearer man comes to his goal to make his life easy and abundant, the more he undermines the foundations of a meaningful existence.

The truth is that most mission work is carried out where the church already exists Only small percentages are working where the church is non-existent.

What a piece of work is a man

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.

Camus himself described this work as 'an attempt to understand the time I live in'.

In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.

Death is not a stalker, always looking for us. Death is a scorekeeper tallying up how much we love life and how much we are willing to work for it. We die when we stop living.

The question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get.