Quotes about Existence
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
— Albert Camus
The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive
— Joseph Campbell
Every instant of time... is a pinprick of eternity.
— Marcus Aurelius
Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
— Aldous Huxley
Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
— William Faulkner
Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.
— William Goldman
To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
— William James
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
— William James
Man lives for science as well as bread.
— William James
Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is rational.
— William James
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.
— William James
If the atheist believes that suffering is bad or ought not to be, then he's making moral judgments that are possible only if God exists.
— William Lane Craig