Human Existence Quotes

193 Human Existence quotes by 157 unique authors

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose… — Carl Jung
The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within… — Aberjhani
Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human… — Aberjhani
Oh my God!" said one of the Ambers. "Is this not the worst trip ever? Did you see the snow?" She was a sharp one,… — Maureen Johnson
Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of… — Markus Zusak
Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence. — Emile M. Cioran
Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence. — Carl Jung
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as ‘Christians’ will… — Dallas Willard
Paganism is that view of life which finds the highest goal of human existence in the healthy and harmonious and joyous development of existing human… — John Gresham Machen
Or perhaps it is just that desire lies at the heart of human existence. When we turn away from one desire, we must find another… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of the earth; they… — N. Scott Momaday
So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates… — Stanislaw Lem
School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances,… — H. L. Mencken
Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one… — Aberjhani
Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and find… — Martha Beck
There is a beautiful expression of this in the Chandogya Upanishad: 'There is this City of Brahman, (that is the body), and in this city… — Bede Griffiths
When the universe is ephemeral, one can easily feel that human existence is meaningless. Why should I do anything at all? On the other hand… — Erlend Loe
Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence -- priceless and irreplaceable. — Henri Nouwen
I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where one then runs… — Hannah Arendt
Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence. — Desmond Tutu
School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. — H. L. Mencken
If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem ofhuman existence, then… — Erich Fromm

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