Quotes About Existence

What worse can happen to a man than to have been born? It's like asking a man who is drowning whether he is not afraid of getting wet.

Man dies. Come from darkness, into darkness he returns, and is reabsorbed, without a trace left, into the illimitable void of time.

Ah well, 'tis the way of the world -- births and deaths, births and deaths.

Hitherto without being; hidden away in the womb of eternity; possessed neither of thought nor feeling; remote from the range of human ken -- the Man bursts, in some unknown manner, the bars of non-existence, and announces with a cry the beginning of his brief life. In the night of non-existence there bursts forth also a little candle, lit by an unseen hand. Mark well its flame: for it is the life of that Man.

You love humanity and I detest it. At best I am indifferent to it. Let it live and not interfere with me.

He felt that in the eyes of the Infinite wisdom and folly are the same, for the Infinite knows them not.

And he was tortured not by the fact that Death was visible, but that both Life and Death were visible at the same time.

Life and Death moved simultaneously, and until the very end Life remained life, to the most ridiculous and insipid trifles.

No, little one, George's ghost won't come back. Human beings don't have souls. No soul, no ghost. Simple." "How can you say that?" protested Mopple. "We don't know whether humans have souls or not." "Every lamb knows that your soul is in your sense of smell. And human beings don't have very good noses." Maude herself had an excellent sense of smell, and often thought about the problem of souls and noses. "So you'd only see a very small ghost. Nothing to be afraid of.

Do you believe, she went on, that the past dies? Yes, said Margaret. Yes, if the present cuts its throat.

God made integers, all else is the work of man.

All ages are equidistant from eternity, and just as immediately accessible to God's presence.

Everything was silent. Only man was awake in his misery, laboring in the sweat of his brow for the sake of this absurd existence that he passionately loves and despises in equal measure.

It is merely the egoism of men, who wants to bury a woman like a treasure. All attempts at using vows, contracts, and holy ceremonies have failed to bring permanence into the most changeable aspect of changeable human existence, namely love. Can you deny that our Christina world is rotting?

The hand of an artist should rescue you Ã¢â'¬â€œ you should not be submerged like all the rest of us and forever, without leaving a trace of your existence behind

You can't get out of life alive, so you may as well have a good time.

Mark Twain stated, "The two most important days in your life are the day you were born, and the day you realize why you were born.

Those who are comfortably established in life tend to have no need to ask what it means. They are the insiders, and for them, how things are is how they should be. The status quo is so much a given that it goes not just unquestioned but unseen, and the blind eye is always turned. It is those whose place is uncertain, and who are thus uneasy in their existence, who need to ask why. And who often come up with radically new answers.

A boy who had learned to survive by silencing his voice had suddenly been given one, but was it his own voice he had been given, or the voice of God? Or was the voice of God within him, part of him? Had divine words really been planted inside him, or had his own words been an expression of the divine? Where did man end and God begin? What was this boundary so powerfully and briefly broken?

To live as My princess," He told me gently, "I must become the center of your very existence. Your innermost being must become a set-apart place, a sacred sanctuary worthy of My presence. Your heart must be transformed into an intimate retreat, unstained by the pollution of the world, where you can discover more and more of Me and allow Me to shape you into My lily-white likeness.

Sacred time is always in the Present.

Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time.

the material world and the flesh are only temporary - there are no sins of the flesh, spirit is everything!

It was the eternal conundrum. Time passed too slowly, and then it was over too quickly. Hurry up and die.