Quotes about Existence
Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
- Samuel Johnson
The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.
- Victor Hugo
any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man
- William Faulkner
The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.
- Ayn Rand
We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.
- CS Lewis
The Word of God is the creation we behold. And it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or alter, that God speaketh universally to man.
- Thomas Paine
To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth.
- Joseph Campbell
In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.
- Pope John Paul II
Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Man - a figment of God's imagination.
- Mark Twain
If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living
- Martin Luther King, Jr.