Quotes about Existence
There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.
- Charles Dickens
Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love the man who stands for us.
- Cormac McCarthy
Trust is one of the fundamentals of human existence. We need to be able to trust one another. A man who can no longer trust anyone will become sick.
- Desmond Tutu
Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.
- Edmund Burke
Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.
- Emily Bronte
Man in the flesh is essentially imperfect. He may be described as being made in the image of God but is far from being God.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives.
- Marcus Aurelius
A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.
- Marcus Aurelius
What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?
- Margaret Atwood
Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.
- Mark Twain