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Quotes About Existential

La vie oscille, comme un pendule, de la souffrance à l'ennui
~ Schopenhauer
Più intelligenza avrai, più soffrirai.
~ Schopenhauer Arthur
And do I ask, wherefore my heart Falters, oppressed with unknown needs? Why some inexplicable smart All movement of my life impedes? Alas! in living Nature's stead, Where God His human creature set, In smoke and mould the fleshless dead And bones of beasts surround me yet!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whom I once get hold of, he will Find the whole world pointless, futile. 11810 Over him gloom casts its dun net, Blinding him to sunrise, sunset, Though possessing all his senses, Inwardly there's only darkness,
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
ak?am, gün do?u?unu izlemeyi tasarl?yorum ve sabah yataktan kalkam?yorum; gün boyunca ay ?????n? bekliyorum, sonra da ak?am, odamdan ç?kam?yorum. ne u?runa uyand???m?, ne u?runa uykuya yatt???m? bilmiyorum.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
And so long as you haven't experienced this: to die and so to grow, you are only a troubled stranger on the dark earth.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As long as you haven't experienced this: to die and so to grow, you are only a troubled stranger on the dark earth.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I wander on my way with aching heart; and the universe is to me a fearful monster, for ever devouring its own offspring.
~ Johann Wolfgange Von Gothe
My experience as an Episcopal priest led me to believe that I would never want to suffer the way I saw so many people die: in isolation, abandoned and with great existential suffering. I would never want to be in an intensive care unit, hooked up to all kinds of machines.
~ John Abraham
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
~ John Berger
The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to HAPPEN to a person.
~ Ira Progoff
If you believe that the world is going to come to an end - and perhaps any day now - does it not drain one's motivation to improve life on earth while we're here?
~ Bill Maher
I'm really enjoying growing up. I feel like so much of my life was in an existential crisis when I was young, and I don't feel as bogged down by that anymore.
~ Natasha Lyonne
My life failed on the very day I was born.
~ Robert Bly
What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid.
~ Sylvia Plath
Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.
~ George MacDonald
Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
~ Iris Murdoch
I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life.
~ Joseph Conrad
I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping as we all should. I dunno. You don't live that long. It doesn't matter.
~ Louis C. K.
If my life had no meaning there was no reason not to end it.
~ Dan Wells, Ruins
Feel completely unable to do anything. Try to picture your life in five years. It really seems like you will be dead.
~ Megan Boyle
Maybe life isn't meaningless...Maybe just YOUR life is meaningless
~ Donald Miller
My experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life.
~ Anthony de Mello
If you start asking how do we make life meaningful and life never ends, then you get into sort of these terrible sort of metaphysical quandaries and it gets really, really bleak looking.
~ Hanya Yanagihara