Quotes About Existence

Atheism certainly promotes a low view of humanity- how much lower can you get than thinking yourself an accidental by-product of a series of even larger accidents!

tomes on the meaning of life. Poets and playwrights were

and you wondered if you'd be alive next time Halley's Comet came round

Only the individual, or that part of life which is in the firm grasp of the individual, is real.

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear. To be we know not what, we know not where.

Most men think they are simply here on earth to kill time—and it's killing them.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. —ALBERT SCHWEITZER

As D. H. Lawrence said, "I am not a mechanism.

El problema de la propia identidad no es exclusivo de los jóvenes. Es permanente. Es tal vez el problema por excelencia. Puede perseguirnos en la vejez y, cuando ya no lo hace, es que nos está indicando que estamos muertos.

Thoreau wrote, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation," and it seems nothing has changed.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation – the right to breathe air as nature provided it -- the right of future generations to a healthy existence? (John F. Kennedy, June 10, 1963, American University speech)

When power narrows the areas of a man's concerns, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence

What are you, where did you come from, and whither are you bound?"— the question which from Homer's days has been put to the wayfarer in strange lands — is likewise the all-absorbing question which man is ever asking of the universe of which he is himself so tiny yet so wondrous a part.

Only three things are real: God, human folly, and laughter. Since we can do nothing with the first two, we must do what we can with the third.

For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human life

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.

We are all in flight from the real reality. That is the basic definition of Homo Sapiens.

The sky is absolutely empty. Beautifully pure and empty. As if the architects and builders would live in all the houses they built! Or could live in them all. It's obvious, it stares you in the fact. There must be a God and he can't know anything about us.

I'm only happy when I forget to exist. When just my eyes or my ears or my skin exist.

If there is a God he's a great loathsome spider in the darkness.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

Time in itself, absolutely, does not exist; it is always relative to some observer or some object. Without a clock I say 'I do not know the time' . Without matter time itself is unknowable. Time is a function of matter; and matter therefore is the clock that makes infinity real.