Quotes About Existence

Man leaves only so that the presence of God can take his place. God

But evidence is all around you." "The world is all around me. Some parts I understand, some I don't. Some the scientists do, some they don't. It exists. That only proves it exists." "I don't understand how you can look at the world and say there's no God." "And I don't know how you can look at the world and pretend you know there's a God and what he wants. So we're even.

Know this: even if you're like us and still doddering around above ground, someone out there from your past is probably pretty sure that you're dead by now. (p.125 )

Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.

Every word written is a victory against Death.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right…. We sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

My trade and art is to live.

My trade and my art is living.

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.

He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it.

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

What about you, Michel, what are you going to do here?' The response closest to the truth was probably something like 'Nothing'; but it's always difficult to explain that kind of thing to an active person.

The only conclusion he could draw was that without points of reference, a man melts away.

Quand on aime la vie, on ne lit pas.

O kadar az yaÅŸad?m ki sanki hiç ölmeyecekmiÅŸim gibi düÅŸünme eÄŸilimindeyim; insan hayat?n?n bu kadarc?k bir ÅŸeye indirgenmesi gerçek olamazm?? gibi geliyor bana; elinizde olmadan, er ya da geç bir ÅŸey olacak diye hayal ediyorsunuz. Büyük hata. Bir hayat pekâlâ da boÅŸ ve k?sa olabilir. Günler ne bir iz ne bir an? b?rakmadan sefil bir ÅŸekilde ak?p gider; ve sonra bir anda duruverir.

There is no endless silence of infinite space, for in reality there is no space, no silence and no void.

Que pouvions-nous faire, donc? Vivre? C'est exactement dans ce genre de situation qu'écrasés par le sentiment de leur propre insignifiance les gens se décident à faire des enfants; ainsi se reproduit l'espèce, de moins en moins il est vrai.

Men live alongside one another like cattle; it is a miracle if once in a while they manage to share a bottle of booze.

No one in the West will ever be happy again, she also thought, never again; happiness today is nothing but an old dream, the past conditions for its existence are simply no longer being fulfilled.