Quotes about Existence
Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.
- Victor Hugo
I don't know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.
- Albert Camus
There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.
- Paul Ricoeur
It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.
- Albert Schweitzer
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
- GK Chesterton
Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.
- Aristotle
I refuse to believe that we're only here to live and die.
- Amy Grant
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
- Peter Kreeft
Reason is your means of survival — so that for you, who are a human being, the question 'to be or not to be' is the question 'to think or not to think..'.
- Ayn Rand
All I want to do now is look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to.
- Oscar Wilde
Nothing is more futile than looking for meaning in things that have none.
- Marty Rubin
Life itself is a rickety building
- William Golding