Quotes about Existence
I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be - that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Without God man has no reference point to define himself.
— RC Sproul
Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter to ourselves.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Man is created for the glory of God.
— G Campbell Morgan
The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.
— Deepak Chopra
This place is just a trailer for a film, Brandon. Our lives here. Heaven is like the movie. Except there's only one trailer before the movie. And the movie won't ever end.
— Travis Thrasher
I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.
— Victor Hugo
The infinite exists. It is there. If the infinite had no me, the me would be its limit; it would not be the infinite; in other words, it would not be. But it is. Then it has a me. This me of the infinite is God.
— Victor Hugo
God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being transparent.
— Victor Hugo
Voyager, c'est naître et mourir à chaque instant.
— Victor Hugo