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Quotes About Existential

Questa è la riva del mare. […] Né terra né mare. E' un luogo che non esiste.
~ Alessandro Baricco
She had been seized with a sudden existential horror. The house had white carpets and white furniture and, most significantly, no books.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Résumé Razors pain you, Rivers are damp, Acids stain you, And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful, Nooses give, Gas smells awful. You might as well live.
~ Dorothy Parker
Materialism is an identity crisis.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained.
~ Kenneth Rexroth
Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?
~ Donna Tartt
Life is death in slow motion.
~ Henry Rollins
I have no idea what the hell is going on in the world, in my life, in what anything means, or what I'm supposed to do.
~ John Maus
I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.
~ Steven Wright
Life is fragile and absurd.
~ Leo Tolstoy
There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something.
~ William Wharton
Oh my god what am I doing with my life?
~ El-P
If I want a long, boring story with no point to it, I have my life.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
My life is just like Breaking Bad except instead of a chemistry teacher I'm just a guy and instead of making meth I don't do much.
~ Dana Gould
Destructiveness is the outcome of an unlived life.
~ Erich Fromm
What is life but playing with time?
~ Keith Richards
Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe in the play.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Life is a dead-end street.
~ H. L. Mencken
Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end.
~ Virginia Woolf
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.
~ T.S. Eliot
Every day we walk a razor thin line between the ordinary and the tragic."...First line of Gift For My Sister.
~ Ann Pearlman
No sadness, my soul's no more of this world.
~ Anna Akhmatova
Can you think yourself to death?
~ Anna Kamie?ska