Quotes about Existence

What is actually man's concern is not to fulfill himself or to actualize himself but to fulfill meaning and to realize value. And only to the extent to which he fulfills concrete and personal meaning of his own existence will he also fulfill himself. Self-fulfillment occurs by itself; not through intention but as effect.

The transitoriness of our existence in no way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibility; for now everything hinges upon our realizing the transitory possibilities.

To have a good conscience can never be the basis of a morally good existence; it is, rather, the result.

Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality

I exist only in the soles of my feet and in the tired muscles of my thighs. We have been walking for hours it seems. But where? I cannot remember.

We insist, it seems, on living.

I is only a convenient term for somebody who has no real being.

For nothing matters except life; and, of course, order.

That's what makes a view so sad, and so beautiful. It'll be there when we're not.

There it was, all round them. It partook, she felt, carefully helping Mr. Bankes to a specially tender piece, of eternity.

She had a sense of being past everything, through everything, out of everything, as she helped the soup. as if there was an eddy--there--and one could be in it, or one could be out of it, and she was out of it.