existence Quotes

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

God's first creature, which was light.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.