Quotes about Existence
Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
- Mark Twain
You die and die and then you are beyond death.
- CS Lewis
Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.
- Henry David Thoreau
The suicide! What would he have done if death did not exist?
- Marty Rubin
Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live and is full of misery. He cometh up and is cut down like a flower he fleeth as it were a shadow and never continueth in one stay.
- Anonymous
The Entity who brought the universe into existence must be a Personal Being, for only a person can design with anywhere near this degree of precision.
- Hugh Ross
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
- CS Lewis
...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight.
- Dante Alighieri
The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.
- Ayn Rand
Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being.
- Marcus Aurelius
You must learn to understand the secret of gratitude. It is more than just so-called virtue. It is revealed to you as a mysterious law of existence. In obedience to it we have to fulfill our destiny.
- Albert Schweitzer
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