Quotes about Existence
On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing is solitude
— William Wordsworth
Nature abhors annihilation.
— Cicero
The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is saturated with deity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The snow in winter, the flowers in spring. There is no deeper reality.
— Marty Rubin
Fortunately, in her kindness and patience, Nature has never put the fatal question as to the meaning of their lives into the mouths of most people. And where no one asks, no one needs to answer.
— Carl Jung
Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?
— George Eliot
Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.
— Victor Hugo
I don't know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.
— Albert Camus
There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.
— Paul Ricoeur
It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.
— Albert Schweitzer
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
— GK Chesterton