Existential Worth Quotes

When we say that black lives matter, it's not because others don't: it's simply because we must affirm that we are worthy of existing without fear, when so many things tell us we are not.

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.

Just being born makes you worthy enough to be here

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.

Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a 'happy' one?

Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt - an immense leap of an attempt - to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it.

Those who do not love life do not deserve it.

A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being?

The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he feels equal. The great majority of men have no right to existence, but are a misfortune to higher men.

And then many things became very clear... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.

I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.

Science can tell us what exists; but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart.

Mankind occurs as male or female, as something or nothing. Woman has no share in ontological reality, no relation to the thing-in-itself, which, in the deepest interpretation, is the absolute, is God. Man in his highest form, the genius, has such a relation, and for him the absolute is either the conception of the highest worth of existence, in which case he is a philosopher; or it is the wonderful fairyland of dreams, the kingdom of absolute beauty, and then he is an artist.

You are worthy because you were born.

No living thing is insignificant.

Better a soulless clone... than a souled roach.

Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be.

What can you pay for the way a man lives? What can you pay for what a man is?

What is the worth of anything we do? The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.