Quotes About Existential

Is this muteness a real physical handicap? One of the many symptoms of being Dead?Or do we just have nothing left to say?

Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

Futility is the defining characteristic of life.

Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life.

At the moment I'm so exhausted that I feel like cutting my throat, so the next news masy well be that I am across the river and under the trees: what is the meaning and purpose of life? Death.

In the midst of life we are in debt.

It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.

Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.

Life is crazy and meaningful at once.

The two real problems in life are boredom and death.

I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous.

It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?

I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.

What fun is life without a little death?

Can I hold your hands" he asked I put mine in his. "The universe is seeming really huge right now," he told me. "I need something to hold on to.

The universe transformed into a Sunday afternoon . . . it is the very definition of ennui, and the end of the universe.

For life is practically a battle. To all intents and purposes a battle. Except for a few lucky fellows who can read books, and so avoid the realities.

A luz que eu possuía apagou-se há seis semanas. Não quero ser bom, nem amável, nem corajoso. Se continuar a viver, serei… não essas coisas, mas o oposto delas. E também não é isso que quero; não quero nada.

meaningless piety, she knew – but to be always meaningful makes a cold world.

Al final —concluyó con abatimiento—, ya no sabía qué estaba haciendo allí. Sólo sabía que, fuera lo que fuese, no tenía el menor sentido. —Esto que acabas de describir —le dije— se llama trabajar.

If a man die, shall he live again?

It is so soon that I am done for,I wonder what I was begun for.

We're the middle children of history.... no purpose or place. We have no Great War, no Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.