Existence Value Quotes

Not everything that exists today is reasonable; but this does not mean that everything that does not exist is sensible.

The value of life itself cannot be estimated.

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.

Not caring for their lives' is it? Why, what in the world is there that we should care for if it's not our lives, the only gift the Lord never offers us a second time.

How amazing it is to be alive Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What possible reason could he have for envying the gods

I am perfectly confident that I could never adequately convey to any other human being the precise reasons why I continue to refrain from suicide - the reasons, that is, why I still find existence enough of a compensation to atone for its dominantly burthensome quality.

If life is not a celebration, why remember it ? If life --- mine or that of my fellow man --- is not an offering to the other, what are we doing on this earth?

...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily.

I would endeavour to deserve my life, Sire.

There is no distinction between reverence for existence and our senses and/or apathy.

Just to be is holy, just to live is a gift.

Every life is its own excuse for being.

In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.'

If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?