existence Quotes

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.