Quotes About Existential

For all the robots who question their programming.

I'm a strange new kind of inbetween thing aren't I not at home with the dead nor with the living

I've come to understand the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with the space where God would be if God were available, but God isn't.

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine. God went out of my fingers. They became stone. My body became a side of mutton and despair roamed the slaughterhouse.

The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be mental and even spiritual enrichment: a more expansive sense of who we humans are, existentially, and where we came from, and how we fit with other life on earth.

Cine ?tie, se poate ca via?a s? fie moarte iar moartea s? fie via??.

The natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.

At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.

A tedium that includes the expectation of nothing but more tedium; a regret, right now, for the regret I'll have tomorrow for having felt regret today – huge confusions with no point and no truth, huge confusions…

I aspire to nothing. Life wounds me. I feel uncomfortable where I am and uncomfortable where I think I could be.

To be reincarnated in a stone or a speck of dust – my soul weeps with this yearning. I'm losing my taste for everything, including even my taste for finding everything tasteless.

109 [126] Even my dreams turn on me. I achieve such a degree of lucidity in them that I perceived as real everything I dreamed. So, because I dreamed it, was everything I valued just a waste of time?

If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I mean strange in a bad way. And it could be that there are a whole lot of dead, one-planet civilisations.

I got this feeling I'm gonna die before I get old. I don't know why. I just have this feeling.

'Ikiru' is existential but with a lot of tenderness.

We have an existential crisis, which is the climate crisis. Canada is one of the laggards in the industrialized world. Our record is terrible.

I thought that we all were afraid of death, but I've talked to my wife and other people, and they're not afraid of death the way I am. I find that really confusing. I don't like the idea of nothingness - that's terrifying to me.

The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.

The human animal needs meaning as well as food and air and sex and water. The sense that life is meaningless is at the root of a great deal of depression, aggression, and addiction, which can only be addressed by a restoration of the sense that life is meaning-full.

Sleeping and waking, the notion of being lost, of having wandered out of the right life, kept turning up in different guises. She imagined mirrors in which she could not find herself.

In our opinion, love is the one force that is capable of easing existential despair and the endemic pain of the human condition.

No os lo vais a creer, pero ayer por la noche, a eso de las cuatro de la madrugada, vi en la tele una película que era mi biografía o mi autobiografía o un resumen de mis días en el puto planeta Tierra. Me cago en la hostia santa, el susto que me dio casi me hizo que me cayera del sillón.

But a living is not a life.