Human Existence Quotes

193 Human Existence quotes by 157 unique authors

It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and… — Peter Matthiessen
Envy, envy eats them alive. If you had money, they’d envy you that. But since you don’t, they envy you for having such a good,… — Dean Koontz
Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. … The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your purpose, is… — Eckhart Tolle
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling. — Simone Weil
in addition to the conditions under which life is given to man on earth, and partly out of them, men constantly create their own, self-made… — Hannah Arendt
Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived— what could… — Louise GluÌˆck
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself. — William Blake
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. — Immanuel Kant
Compassion is the chief law of human existence. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry,… — Abraham Kuyper
And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed, we have excised… — Jane Yolen
When we three spoke ourselves into human existences the Son of God, we became fully human. We also chose to embrace all the limitation that… — William P. Young
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. — Aristotle
The way of peace is a soul journey. . . . If you can live from the level of your soul, you are doing something… — Deepak Chopra
Saying this, he turned his head toward the window as if he were trying to solve the problems of human existence by concentrating on the… — Khalil Gibran
Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the universe; of our… — Jonathan Franzen
Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human… — H.G. Wells
Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to so… — Michel Houellebecq
Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are… — Milan Kundera
Of course the world of work begins to become - threatens to become - our only world, to the exclusion of all else. The demands… — Josef Pieper
Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence. — Arthur Miller
...loss is essential, loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Mind you, I'm not complaining. Thanks to some inexplicable universal guiding… — Rohinton Mistry
Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals. — Yann Martel
and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended — Stephen King

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