Quotes about Existence
The Word of God is the creation we behold. And it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or alter, that God speaketh universally to man.
— Thomas Paine
To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
— Henry David Thoreau
Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth.
— Joseph Campbell
In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.
— Pope John Paul II
Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Man - a figment of God's imagination.
— Mark Twain
If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.
— John Donne
If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.
— John Tillotson
All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.
— GK Chesterton
As a sunbeam perishes when cut off from the sun, so man apart from God would pass back into the void of nothingness from which he first leaped at the creative call.
— AW Tozer