Quotes about Existence
Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.
- Peter Kreeft
We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.
- Carl Sagan
That's why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries didn't believe this.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
But trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!.
- William Wordsworth
The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal is the present incarnate.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Humanity, take a good look at yourself. Inside, you've got heaven and earth, and all of creation. You're a world—everything is hidden in you.
- Hildegard of Bingen
Humanity finds itself in the midst of the world. In the midst of all other creatures humanity is the most significant and yet the most dependent upon the others.
- Hildegard of Bingen
Pressed, I would define spirituality as the shadow of light humanity casts as it moves through the darkness of everything that can be explained.
- John Updike
What a bummer it is to be a human being.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.
- Walt Whitman
Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race.
- Victor Hugo
I stopped and I thought, 'What would Jesus do?' So I didn't exist.
- Bo Burnham