Human existence Quotes

There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.

— William Shakespeare

Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Each character is an allegory for every aspect of human existence.

— Vanna Bonta

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

— William Blake

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

— B. R. Ambedkar

Humour is the be-all and end-all medicine of human existence.

— Debra Granik

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

— Immanuel Kant

Human Rights, The essence of Human existence

— DrMohammed Abad Alrazak

The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life,…

— Julian Sands

Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of…

— Smiley Blanton

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of…

— Herbert Read

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?

— Milan Kundera

“...what exactly is there in human existence that can lure you away from pleasure: peace of mind, a walk by the sea,…

— Kapka Kassabova

As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to…

— Yahya Jammeh

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

— Anonymous

The Light of one human being who discovers the Truth has been lighting human existence for thousands of years. Such is the…

— Mooji

Revolutionary practice in any field of human existence develops by itself if one comprehends the contradictions in every new process; it consists…

— Wilhelm Reich

Learning, like love, death and eating, are fundamental human activities. It's at the core of human existence and its character has a…

— Leon Botstein

The most significant change wrought by adolescence is the taming of the ideals by which a person measures himself. . . .…

— Louise J. Kaplan

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is brief, even at its longest. Whatever you are going to do with your life, get at it. All good will…

— Jim Rohn

If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic…

— William Greider

Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself,…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“God is inscrutable, mysterious and unknowable. We do not understand what life is about, what it means, why we are here and…

— Chris Hedges

“One day when I went to see him (Picasso), we were looking at the dust dancing in a ray of sunlight that…

— Francoise Gilot

Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“The most tragic strain in human existence lies in the fact that the pleasure which we find in the things of this…

— Randy Alcorn

“To feel oneself so tiny, so fragile, so inherently losable, was at first spiritually crushing. But, by the same token, this realisation…

— Alastair Reynolds

“There is only this one life going on, this one loving, all giving, perfect intelligence. This one perfect pattern of infinite potential,…

— Derek Rydall

“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Eating reveals the characteristic grossness of the human race and also the in-built failure of its satisfactions. We arrive eager, we stuff…

— Iris Murdoch

“So long as we have wage slavery," answered Schliemann, "it matters not in the least how debasing and repulsive a task may…

— Upton Sinclair

“Logotherapy, keeping in mind the essential transitoriness of human existence, is not pessimistic but rather activistic. To express this point figuratively we…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“A house of simple people which stands empty and silent in the vast Southern country morning sunlight, and everything which on this…

— James Agee

“Some catastrophic moments invite clarity, explode in split moments: You smash your hand through a windowpane and then there is blood and…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“The crucial issue of the times, he suggested, was the human person: a unique being, who lived in a material world but…

— George Weigel

“When we feel frustrated, our first inclination is to change whatever isn't working for us. We can try to accomplish this by…

— Gabor Maté

“One must go to Dostoievsky who experienced on occasion ecstatic epileptic auras to which he attached momentous significance, to find an adequate…

— Oliver Sacks

“Physical beauty is a subject that many skirt around and almost everyone attempts to down-play thereby demonstrating some sound moral stance, but…

— Julian Fellowes