Existence Quotes

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Norman Mailer

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

Lin Yutang

It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence.

Stanislav Grof

We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.

Leon Kass

God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.

Donald Knuth

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

Wilhelm Dilthey

n short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.

Armstrong Williams

One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

Morris West

With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.

Frederick Soddy

The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.

A.W. Tozer

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Sontag, Susan

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

Updike, John

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Erich Fromm

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Arthur Schopenhauer

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

Friedrich Nietzsche