Quotes about Existence
Of Myself and of Death' (pp. 287—300).
— Karl Barth
What lies between these two ends, these 'last things', is the world, our world, the comprehensible world which has been given us.
— Karl Barth
Creation is grace: a statement at which we should like best to pause in reverence, fear and gratitude. God does not grudge the existence of the reality distinct from Himself; He does not grudge it its own reality, nature and freedom.
— Karl Barth
Heaven is the creation inconceivable to man; earth is the creation conceivable to him.
— Karl Barth
Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong.
— John Quincy Adams
When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.
— John Tillotson
Every man is an impossibility until he is born.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
— Samuel Johnson
The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.
— Victor Hugo
any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man
— William Faulkner
The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.
— Ayn Rand
We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.
— CS Lewis