Explore the most impactful and insightful quotes and sayings by Peter Wessel Zapffe, and enrich your perspective with the wisdom. Share these inspiring Peter Wessel Zapffe quotes pictures with your friends on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, completely free. Here are the top 22 Peter Wessel Zapffe quotes for you to read and share.

Peter Wessel Zapffe Quotes : pic 000139401
He is the universe's helpless captive, kept to fall into nameless possibilities. -- Peter Wessel Zapffe
Peter Wessel Zapffe Quotes : pic 000225294
If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind. -- Peter Wessel Zapffe
Peter Wessel Zapffe Quotes : pic 000549699
Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual demands that reality cannot fulfill. We have expectations of a just and moral world. Man requires meaning in a meaningless world. -- Peter Wessel Zapffe
Peter Wessel Zapffe Quotes : pic 000659644
Man beholds the earth, and it is breathing like a great lung; whenever it exhales, delightful life swarms from all its pores and reaches out toward the sun, but when it inhales, a moan of rupture passes through the multitude, and corpses whip the ground like bouts of hail. -- Peter Wessel Zapffe
Peter Wessel Zapffe Quotes : pic 000686107
He is mighty in the near world, but curses his might as purchased with his harmony of soul, his innocence, his inner peace in life's embrace. -- Peter Wessel Zapffe
Peter Wessel Zapffe Quotes : pic 000698340
A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without hesitation. -- Peter Wessel Zapffe
Peter Wessel Zapffe Quotes : pic 000779626
Mankind ought to end its existence of its own will. -- Peter Wessel Zapffe
Peter Wessel Zapffe Quotes : pic 000815574
The seed of a metaphysical or religious defeat is in us all. For the honest questioner, however, who doesn't seek refuge in some faith or fantasy, there will never be an answer. -- Peter Wessel Zapffe
Peter Wessel Zapffe Quotes : pic 000876827
Know yourselves- be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye. -- Peter Wessel Zapffe
Peter Wessel Zapffe Quotes : pic 000942497
No future triumph or metamorphosis can justify the pitiful blighting of a human being against his will. -- Peter Wessel Zapffe
Peter Wessel Zapffe Quotes : pic 001019642
Jesus must have been a psychopath -- Peter Wessel Zapffe
Peter Wessel Zapffe Quotes : pic 001086071
Man is the ultimate tragic being, because he has learned enough about the Earth to realise the Earth would be better off without the presence of humankind. -- Peter Wessel Zapffe
Peter Wessel Zapffe Quotes : pic 001177678
The immediate facts are what we must relate to. Darkness and light, beginning and end. -- Peter Wessel Zapffe
Peter Wessel Zapffe Quotes : pic 001222752
The more a human being in his worldview approaches the goal, the hegemony of love in a moral universe, the more has he become slipshod in the light of intellectual honesty. -- Peter Wessel Zapffe
Peter Wessel Zapffe Quotes : pic 001281949
A coin is turned around before it is handed to the beggar, yet a child is unflinchingly tossed into cosmic bruteness. -- Peter Wessel Zapffe
Peter Wessel Zapffe Quotes : pic 001334971
When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving' the suicidal is based on a hair-raising misapprehension of the nature of existence. -- Peter Wessel Zapffe
Peter Wessel Zapffe Quotes : pic 001345003
For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet. -- Peter Wessel Zapffe
Peter Wessel Zapffe Quotes : pic 001381409
As long as humankind recklessly proceeds in the fateful delusion of being biologically fated for triumph, nothing essential will change. -- Peter Wessel Zapffe
Peter Wessel Zapffe Quotes : pic 001646651
The dread of being stares us in the eye, and in a deadly gush we perceive how the minds are dangling in threads of their own spinning, and that a hell is lurking underneath. -- Peter Wessel Zapffe
Peter Wessel Zapffe Quotes : pic 001667515
We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the inconceivable nothingness. -- Peter Wessel Zapffe
Peter Wessel Zapffe Quotes : pic 001761015
Why does man need a meaning to life? -- Peter Wessel Zapffe
Peter Wessel Zapffe Quotes : pic 001836470
To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house. -- Peter Wessel Zapffe