Quotes about Existence
A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.
- John Donne
If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.
- John Tillotson
All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.
- GK Chesterton
As a sunbeam perishes when cut off from the sun, so man apart from God would pass back into the void of nothingness from which he first leaped at the creative call.
- AW Tozer
I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one
- Albert Camus
A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.
- Anais Nin
The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
In a very real sense, the suffering of this world was created by man himself.
- Billy Graham
If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience of man is not a product of nature.
- CS Lewis
Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.
- CS Lewis
Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.
- Carl Sagan