Quotes about Existence

Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.

Time is a gift and a threat because we are bodily creatures. We only come into existence through the bodies of others, but that very body destines us to death. We must be born and we must die.

Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.

The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.

God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.

What then is time? Provided that no one asks me, I know. If I want to explain it to an inquirer, I do not know.

Our time for this life is nothing other than a race to death.

Man is God truly alive

Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.

It is not our body which feels, not our mind which thinks, but we, as single human beings, who both feel and think.

What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but stretch out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for all eternity. A pity I should have to give tongue at the same time, it prevents it from bleeding in peace, licking the lips.