Human Existence Quotes - Page 11

• The way of peace is a soul journey. . . . If you can live from the level of your soul, you are doing something very special. The important thing is how much consciousness you add to the whole of human existence, for that is how eternity expresses itself, like a lamp shining through the window of eternity.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Journey, Shining

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• 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 beauty of the universe.

  Khalil Gibran

  Trying, Problem, Window

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• 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 desires forever outnumbering our means of satisfying them.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Mean, Forever, Desire

  Jonathan Franzen (2007). “How to Be Alone: Essays”, p.70, Macmillan

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• 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 the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limit of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.

  Milan Kundera

  Children, Questions And Answers, Limits

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• 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 will build into your system, making life feel more and more unbearale. But you won't even notice it coming on, thinking that it is somehow normal, something about getter older, about turning eight or about turning twelve or turning fifteeen, and then one day you realize that your entire life is just awful, not worth living, a horror and a black blot on the white terrain of human existence. One morning you wake up afraid you are going to live.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Morning, Heart, Thinking

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• 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 little; one imagines, in spite of oneself, that sooner or later something is bound to happen. A big mistake. A life can just as well be both empty and short. The days slip by indifferently, leaving neither trace nor memory; and then all of a sudden they stop.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Memories, Mistake, Leaving

  Michel Houellebecq (2011). “Whatever: A Novel”, p.46, Profile Books

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• I'm not sure that I 'am' a philosopher - but I do engage with questions that are generally recognized as philosophical questions, such as the character of human existence and what makes for a good human life.

  George Pattison

  Philosophical, Character, Philosopher

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• I like to express true emotions under the cover of melancholy: It includes fulfilment and pain, which describes human existence.

  Volker Bertelmann

  Pain, Emotion, Melancholy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was really struck by all these people who had committed suicide. There are videos of all of them talking about why they're so happy to shed their human existence and exit their "vehicles" and I thought, "Why is that?"

  Joshuah Bearman

  Suicide, Talking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Ultimately, the reason why love and compassion bring the greatest happiness is simply that our nature cherishes them above all else. The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence.

  Dalai Lama

  Lying, Compassion, Reason Why

  Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The important thing is how much consciousness you add to the whole of human existence, for that is how eternity expresses itself.

  Deepak Chopra

  Important, Add, Consciousness

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• Now the basic impulse behind existentialism is optimistic, very much like the impulse behind all science. Existentialism is romanticism, and romanticism is the feeling that man is not the mere he has always taken himself for. Romanticism began as a tremendous surge of optimism about the stature of man. Its aim - like that of science - was to raise man above the muddled feelings and impulses of his everyday humanity, and to make him a god-like observer of human existence.

  Colin Wilson

  Taken, Optimistic, Men

  "Introduction to the New Existentialism". Book by Colin Wilson, p. 96, 1966.

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• Above all, creators remain drawn to the age-old paradoxes that philosophy grapples with [and]...that art occasionally resolves...the problem of the one and the many; unity and variety; determinism and freedom; mechanism and vitalism; good and evil; time and eternity; the plenum and the void; moral absolutism and relativism... These are the basic problems of human existence, and as far as we possibly can we arrange things to forget them.

  Frank Barron

  Art, Philosophy, Moral Absolutism

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• Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock asnot going wrong. The first objective for a clock, is, however, that it does run; not going wrong is an additional regulative function. If not a watch's greatest accomplishment were not going wrong, unwound watches might be the best.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Running, Accomplishment, Priorities

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• The most significant change wrought by adolescence is the taming of the ideals by which a person measures himself. . . . Love of oneself becomes love of the species. Conscience is pointed to the future, whispering permission to reach beyond the safety net of our ordinary and finite human existence.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Future, Significant Change, Safety

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• It is a human circumstance that when we are born we have not yet come into existence. We are lured into our special human existence by a mothering presence that gratifies our innate urges to be suckled, held, rocked, caressed. But that same gratifying presence puts limits on desire and rations satisfaction. In this sense the mother is also the first lawgiver.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Mother, Special, Desire

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• It is merely the egoism of the man, who wants to bury a woman like a treasure. All attempts at using vows, contracts, and holy ceremonies have failed to bring permanence into the most changeable aspect of changeable human existence, namely love.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Men, Treasure, Want

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• Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

  Tennessee Williams

  Magic, Fleeting, Eternity

  Tennessee Williams (1978). “Where I Live: Selected Essays”, p.52, New Directions Publishing

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• Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.

  Albert Camus

  Power, Historical, Tasks

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• Making two possibilities a reality. Predicting the future of things we all know. Fighting off the diseased programming Of centuries, centuries, centuries, centuries. Science fails to recognise the single most Potent element of human existence. Letting the reigns go to the unfoldings faith, Science has failed our world. Science has failed our mother earth.

  Serj Tankian

  Mother, Fighting, Reality

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• CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, author of 'Cogito ergo sum' to demonstrate the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved 'Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum' 'I think that I think, therefore I think that I am' as close an approach.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Reality, Thinking, Might

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• The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.

  Pope John Paul II

  Tired, Darkness, World

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• The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence.

  Dalai Lama

  Lying, Foundation, Needs

  Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The love of money is the root of all evil. That is the fundamental truth that I have verified through 3 decades of empirical, investigative, legal, academic research trying to answer some fundamental questions about human existence and why we behave the way we do, why we think the way we do, why we act the way we do...It is the love of money that has the potential to exterminate- to render extinct- the entire human race.

  Michael Ruppert

  Thinking, Roots, Race

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• I believe in the supreme excellence of righteousness; I believe that the law of righteousness will triumph in the universe over all evil; I believe that in the attempt to fulfil the law of righteousness, however imperfect it must remain, are to be found the inspiration, the consolation, and the sanctification of human existence.
  We live in order to finish an, as yet, unfinished universe, unfinished so far as the human, that is, the highest part of it, is concerned. We live in order to develop the superior qualities of man which are, as yet, for the most part latent.

  Felix Adler

  Inspiration, Believe, Men

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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