existential courage Quotes

If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.

The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.

I'm going to die with my mind intact. And to me that is the most exciting way you could possibly die.

You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death.

No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary, existential courage of the woman who gives birth.

I do not fear invisible worlds.

We came into a homeless frontier, a place where we were not welcome, where nothing that lived was welcome, where thought and logic were abhorrent and we were frightened, but we went into this place because the universe lay before us, and if we were to know ourselves, we must know the universe

He who does not at some time, with definite determination consent to the terribleness of life, or even exalt in it, never takes possession of the inexpressible fullness of the power of our existence.

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.

We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one's life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being.

The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim the goodness and dignity of human life, without either hesitation or arrogance. Then magic can descend onto our existence.

This is in the end the only kind of courage that is required of us: the courage to face the strangest, most unusual, most inexplicable experiences that can meet us.

The anxiety of fate is conquered by the self-affirmation of the individual as an infinitely significant microcosmic representation of the universe .

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.

That was indeed to live -- at one bold swoop to wrest from darkling death the best that death to life can give.

We love, while knowing that someday our love might be lost forever. We laugh as we stride along, even while recognising that doom lies at the end of the road. We give, while comprehending that in the end 'twill all be taken away. we are nothing less then heroes.