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title: "20 Existence Human Quotes by 19 authors"
description: "Browse 20 Existence Human quotes by 19 authors. Discover the best Existence Human sayings and thoughts."
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> [Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaggi-vasudev/modern-science-has-its-value-in-terms-of-utility-but-it-cannot-open/)

[Jaggi Vasudev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaggi-vasudev/)

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> [When a person understands what sort of existence a human being is, and what exactly the "self" is, that person has been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masahisa-goi/when-a-person-understands-what-sort-of-existence-a-human-being-is-and/)

[Masahisa Goi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masahisa-goi/)

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> [If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/camille-flammarion/if-the-existence-of-human-beings-leads-to-nothing-what-is-all-this/)

[Camille Flammarion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/camille-flammarion/)

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> [Peace is not a luxury. It's not an option. It is fundamental to the existence and well-being of a human being to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/prem-rawat/peace-is-not-a-luxury-it-s-not-an-option-it-is-fundamental-to-the/)

[Prem Rawat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/prem-rawat/)

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> [Hard to guess what people see in each other, fortunately for the continued existence of the human race.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/del-shannon/hard-to-guess-what-people-see-in-each-other-fortunately-for-the/)

[Del Shannon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/del-shannon/)

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> [However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baudelaire/however-incoherent-a-human-existence-may-be-human-unity-is-not/)

[Charles Baudelaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baudelaire/)

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> [“...we live this one brief and precious hour called Life; ...it is not in keeping with the nobility of existence to keep…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-smedley/we-live-this-one-brief-and-precious-hour-called-life-it-is-not-in/)

[Agnes Smedley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-smedley/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/377/agnes-smedley-17303_life_we-live-this-one-brief-and-precious-hour_548934.png)

> [“Yes, the existence of human life is evidence for the existence of God; but it’s much better evidence that our world was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jordan-ellenberg/yes-the-existence-of-human-life-is-evidence-for-the-existence-of-god/)

[Jordan Ellenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jordan-ellenberg/)

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> [It is this ability to bear what is unbearable and to go on living, to go on doing what one is used…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christa-wolf/it-is-this-ability-to-bear-what-is-unbearable-and-to-go-on-living-to/)

[Christa Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christa-wolf/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ecc/christa-wolf-15775_ability_it-is-this-ability-to-bear-what-is-unbea_497307.jpg)

> [For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-cronenberg/for-me-the-first-fact-of-human-existence-is-the-human-body-but-if-you/)

[David Cronenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-cronenberg/)

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> [I find myself thinking about my ongoing existence as a human being and the path that lies ahead of me. Though of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/i-find-myself-thinking-about-my-ongoing-existence-as-a-human-being/)

[Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/)

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> [I think, for women in particular, it's kind of like you're expected to get married, have a child, and then you get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayobami-adebayo/i-think-for-women-in-particular-it-s-kind-of-like-you-re-expected-to/)

[Ayobami Adebayo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayobami-adebayo/)

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> [Both life and death manifest in every moment of existence. Our human body appears and disappears moment by moment, without cease, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-ozeki/both-life-and-death-manifest-in-every-moment-of-existence-our-human/)

[Ruth Ozeki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-ozeki/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9cf/ruth-ozeki-2896_action_both-life-and-death-manifest-in-every-mo_820066.jpg)

> [“God is dead,” wrote Mainländer, “and His death was the life of the world.” Once the great individuation had been initiated, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-ligotti/god-is-dead-wrote-mainl-nder-and-his-death-was-the-life-of-the-world/)

[Thomas Ligotti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-ligotti/)

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> [“For all the successes of Western civilization, the world paid a dear price in terms of the most crucial component of existence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eben-alexander/for-all-the-successes-of-western-civilization-the-world-paid-a-dear/)

[Eben Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eben-alexander/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5f/eben-alexander-18167_change_for-all-the-successes-of-western-civiliz_1991235.jpg)

> [We have reached the end of the road that is built on the set of traits held out for male identity--advance at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/we-have-reached-the-end-of-the-road-that-is-built-on-the-set-of/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“Each new step into his new human existence is frightening. It always means to give up a secure state, which was relatively…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-fromm/each-new-step-into-his-new-human-existence-is-frightening-it-always/)

[Erich Fromm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-fromm/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/caa/erich-fromm-367_anxiety_each-new-step-into-his-new-human-existen_908485.jpg)

> [“A house of simple people which stands empty and silent in the vast Southern country morning sunlight, and everything which on this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-agee/a-house-of-simple-people-which-stands-empty-and-silent-in-the-vast/)

[James Agee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-agee/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b81/james-agee-9167_human-consciousness_a-house-of-simple-people-which-stands-em_3025072.jpg)

> [“And there is no question that we are preoccupied by dying. But why? It is because when we die, we leave behind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-blanchot/and-there-is-no-question-that-we-are-preoccupied-by-dying-but-why-it/)

[Maurice Blanchot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-blanchot/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/733/maurice-blanchot-12571_death_and-there-is-no-question-that-we-are-pre_2548807.jpg)

> [“For one who sets himself to look at all earnestly, at all in purpose toward truth, into the living eyes of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-agee/for-one-who-sets-himself-to-look-at-all-earnestly-at-all-in-purpose/)

[james agee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-agee/)

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                        "text": "I find myself thinking about my ongoing existence as a human being and the path that lies ahead of me. Though of course these thoughts lead to but one place - death.",
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                        "text": "Both life and death manifest in every moment of existence. Our human body appears and disappears moment by moment, without cease, and this ceaseless arising and passing away is what we experience as time and being. They are not separate. They are one thing, and in even a fraction of a second, we have the opportunity to choose, and to turn the course of our action either toward the attainment of truth or away from it. Each instant is utterly critical to the whole world.",
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                        "text": "“God is dead,” wrote Mainländer, “and His death was the life of the world.” Once the great individuation had been initiated, the momentum of its creator’s self-annihilation would continue until everything became exhausted by its own existence, which for human beings meant that the faster they learned that happiness was not as good as they thought it would be, the happier they would be to die out.”",
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                        "text": "“For all the successes of Western civilization, the world paid a dear price in terms of the most crucial component of existence - the human spirit. The shadow side of high technology - modern warfare and thoughtless homicide and suicide, urban blight, ecological mayhem, cataclysmic climate change, polarization of economic resources - is bad enough. Much worse, our focus on exponential progress in science and technology has left many of us relatively bereft in the realm of meaning and joy, and of knowing how our lives fit into the grand scheme of existence for all eternity.”",
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                        "text": "We have reached the end of the road that is built on the set of traits held out for male identity--advance at any cost, pay any price, drive out all competitors, and kill them if necessary… we have arrived at a point from which we must seek a basis of faith in connection-- and not only faith but recognition that it is a requirement for the existence of human beings.",
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                        "text": "“Each new step into his new human existence is frightening. It always means to give up a secure state, which was relatively known, for one which is new, which one has not yet mastered. Undoubtedly, if the infant could think at the moment of the severance of the umbilical cord, he would experience the fear of dying. A loving fate protects us from this first panic. But at any new step, at any new stage of our birth, we are afraid again. We are never free from two conflicting tendencies: one to emerge from the womb, from the animal form of existence into a more human existence, from bondage to freedom; another, to return to the womb, to nature, to certainty and security.”",
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                        "text": "“A house of simple people which stands empty and silent in the vast Southern country morning sunlight, and everything which on this morning in eternal space it by chance contains, all thus left open and defenseless to a reverent and cold-laboring spy, shines quietly forth such grandeur, such sorrowful holiness of its exactitudes in existence, as no human consciousness shall ever rightly perceive, far less impart to another: that there can be more beauty and more deep wonder in the standings and spacings of mute furnishings on a bare floor between the squaring bourns of walls than in any music ever made: that this square home, as it stands in unshadowed earth between the winding years of heaven, is, not to me but of itself, one among the serene and final, uncapturable beauties of existence; that this beauty is made between hurt but invincible nature and the plainest cruelties and needs of human existence in this uncured time, and is inextricable among these, and as impossible without them as a saint born in paradise.”",
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                        "text": "“And there is no question that we are preoccupied by dying. But why? It is because when we die, we leave behind not only the world but also death. That is the paradox of the last hour. Death works with us in the world; it is a power that humanizes nature, that raises existence to being, and it is within each one of us as our most human quality; it is death only in the world - man only knows death because he is man, and he is only man because he is death in the process of becoming. But to die is to shatter the world; it is the loss of person, the annihilation of the being; and so it is also the loss of death, the loss of what in it and for me made it death. As long as I live, I am a mortal man, but when I die, by ceasing to be man I also cease to be mortal, I am no longer capable of dying, and my impending death horrifies me because I see it as it is: no longer death, but the impossibility of dying.”",
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                        "text": "“For one who sets himself to look at all earnestly, at all in purpose toward truth, into the living eyes of a human life: what is it he there beholds that so freezes and abashes his ambitious heart? What is it, profound behind the outward windows of each one of you, beneath touch even of your own suspecting, drawn tightly back at bay against the backward wall and blackness of its prison cave, so that the eyes alone shine of their own angry glory, but the eyes of a trapped wild animal, or of a furious angel nailed to the ground by his wings, or however else one may faintly designate the human 'soul,' that which is angry, that which is wild, that which is untamable, that which is healthful and holy, that which is competent of all advantaging within hope of human dream, that which most marvelous and most precious to our knowledge and most extremely advanced upon futurity of all flowerings within the scope of creation is of all these the least destructible, the least corruptible, the most defenseless, the most easily and multitudinously wounded, frustrated, prisoned, and nailed into a cheating of itself: so situated in the universe that those three hours upon the cross are but a noble and too trivial an emblem how in each individual among most of the two billion now alive and in each successive instant of the existence of each existence not only human being but in him the tallest and most sanguine hope of godhead is in a billionate choiring and drone of pain of generations upon generations unceasingly crucified and is bringing forth crucifixions into their necessities and is each in the most casual of his life so measurelessly discredited, harmed, insulted, poisoned, cheated, as not all the wrath, compassion, intelligence, power of rectification in all the reach of the future shall in the least expiate or make one ounce more light: how, looking thus into your eyes and seeing thus, how each of you is a creature which has never in all time existed before and which shall never in all time exist again and which is not quite like any other and which has the grand stature and natural warmth of every other and whose existence is all measured upon a still mad and incurable time; how am I to speak of you as 'tenant' 'farmers,' as 'representatives' of your 'class,' as social integers in a criminal economy, or as individuals, fathers, wives, sons, daughters, and as my friends and as I 'know' you?”",
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