Quotes about Existence
As Nobel prize— winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn noted, "The meaning of earthly existing lies, not as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul.
— John Maxwell
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