Existential Need Quotes

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

Each of us has a God-shaped space within us. Only God can fill that space. But we run ourselves ragged trying to find things other than God to fill it with.

It's true: Everyone needs a reason to stay alive -- someone who justifies your existence. Someone who loves you. Not beyond all reason. Just loves you. Even just shows an interest. Even someone who doesn't exist, or isn't yours. No, no! They don't even have to love you! They just have to be there to love! Target for your arrows. Magnetic Pole to drag on your compass needle and stop it spinning and tell you where you're heading and...Someone to soak up all the yearning. That's what I think.

I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die.

People need meaning as much as they need air. Lucky for us, we can give meaning to each other for free. Just by being alive.

How much change can a person absorb before everything loses meaning Living for its own sake isn't life. People need meaning as much as they need air.

We have no choice. We need the communion of souls and only here are they awake.

You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

A thirst for the infinite is indelibly present in human beings. Man was created to have a relationship with God; we need him.

In here, the human bosom -- mine, yours, everybody's -- there isn't just one soul. There's a lot of souls. But there are two main ones, the real soul and a pretender soul. Now! Every man realizes that he has to love something or somebody. He feels that he must go outward. 'If thou canst not love, what art thou?' Are you with me?

Seen through the eyes of faith, religion's future is secure. As long as there are human beings, there will be religion for the sufficient reason that the self is a theomorphic creature - one whose morphe (form) is theos - God encased within it. Having been created in the imago Dei, the image God, all human beings have a God-shaped vacuum built into their hearts. Since nature abhors a vacuum, people keep trying to fill the one inside them.

Without question, I've either got to be a writer, or I fail.

Man will not live without answers to his questions.

Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.

I want to do whatever I can to survive.

It's important for everybody to have somewhere to go. Men and women need purpose [in life].

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Every being has the need not only to be but to affirm his own being. This is especially significant for the human organism, for it is gifted with, or condemned to, self-consciousness.

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

I think there's probably a God-shaped hole in everybody's being. Even if God only exists in people's minds, He's still a force.

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.

I feel connected to that idea of wanting to belong to something, to have a sense of purpose as a man on the planet.

How could anyone survive even a single day, if he didn't feel as if he was, in some little great way, needed?