Quotes About Existential

beware of thinking of life as commonplace, if by commonplace you mean monotonous, simple, petty. Life is merely terrible;

Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheuren Ungeziefer verwandelt.

The Air Force has it far worse than the Navy in terms of existential fears, primarily due to the rapid rise and unbelievable dissemination of drones, where seemingly now every military unit has their own miniature air wing of what would have recently passed as toys.

We're living tragedies, just passing time 'til our funerals.

el mundo occidental vive como si Dios no existiera», dice. «Creo que es verdad. La fragmentación, el miedo, la desorientación y el ir dando tumbos caracterizan a buena parte de nuestra sociedad».

In the problem of anxiety we must, therefore, always ask the question of what vital value is being threatened

Our deeper emotional experiences are pushed further away, and we tend, thus, to become emptier and lonelier.

On a more everyday level, our point is simply that when a person feels himself inwardly empty, as is the case with so many modern people, he experiences nature around him also as empty, dried up, dead. The two experiences of emptiness are two sides of the same state of impoverished relation to life.

the present phase of our century may well be called, as Auden and Camus call it, the "age of overt anxiety.

It is now how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it (the world) exists at all.....

Gli uomini hanno in sé un superfluo, che di continuo inutilmente li tormenta, non facendoli paghi di nessuna condizione e sempre lasciandoli incerti del loro destino.

if you're the kind of person who wants to know what's at the end of the universe, what's at the edge of being...and comprehension settles on you that you'll never know, despair can well up.

Do you know what the scariest thing is? To not know your place in this world, to not know why you're here. That's - that's just an awful feeling.

Jesus, don't think this is cold. I'm just simply functioning as mind. The whole thing is going to collapse soon—the mind, I mean.

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

Take me away from here and give me some reason for living. I have none left. I have freed myself. That may be. But what does it signify? This objectless liberty is a burden to me.

I am the soul in limbo.

Make no mistake: America is in a media war. It is an extension of the Cold War that never ended but shifted to an electronic front. The war between freedom and statism ended geographically when the Berlin Wall fell. But the existential battle never ceased.

The sun is slowly dying, the spiral arm spreading, the molecules drifting apart second by second towards our inevitable heat death- shouldn't we all wail to the stars?

I didn't particularly want to die but I also didn't at all want to live.

Religion provides answers to unanswerable questions. It cannot usually pull people out of depression; indeed

The deeper and more debilitating form of powerlessness is to be cut off from making meaning.

Sometimes the monotony of bingo and sing alongs, ancient dusty people parked in the hallway in wheelchairs makes me long for death, particularly when -- remember that I'm one of the ancient dusty people, filed away like some worthless chotski.

It's no good. Even when I look straight into the milky blue eyes, I can't find myself anymore. When did I stop being me?