Quotes about Existence
I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one
— Albert Camus
A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.
— Anais Nin
The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
In a very real sense, the suffering of this world was created by man himself.
— Billy Graham
If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience of man is not a product of nature.
— CS Lewis
Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.
— CS Lewis
Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.
— Carl Sagan
There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.
— Charles Dickens
Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love the man who stands for us.
— Cormac McCarthy
Trust is one of the fundamentals of human existence. We need to be able to trust one another. A man who can no longer trust anyone will become sick.
— Desmond Tutu
Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.
— Edmund Burke