Quotes about Existence

How comes the world to be here at all instead of the nonentity which might be imagined in its place? ... from nothing to being there is no logical bridge.

Religious feeling is thus an absolute addition to the subject's range of life. It gives him a new sphere of power. When the outward battle is lost, and the outward world disowns him, it redeems and vivifies an interiour world which otherwise would be an empty waste.

The existence of the devil is so clearly taught in the Bible that to doubt it is to doubt the Bible itself.

Without faith it is impossible to please God, for the one who draws near to Him must believe that He exists and rewards those who seek Him.

The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: It exists in spite of its ministers."

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.

What are the earth and all its interests beside the deep surmise which pierces and scatters them?

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.