Quotes About Existential

I know in an existential sense that life can change on a dime ... something has instantly and inexorably changed in American life.

As young as I look, I think it will still be funny if I played a person who's kind of tortured and hates his life. Kind of like a Larry David-type thing.

The crisis of our time is essentially a religious crisis. It is a matter of life or death.

Sometimes some emptiness of life never fills.

They simply had to fill this terrifying emptiness–otherwise, their brains might start working. Thinking is painful business.

I had nothing better to do, had I, except recount my money and repaint my finger-nails and die of frustration?

Unterwegs auf der Straße fühlte er eine innere Leere entstehen, etwas wie eine existenzielle Schwermut als Folge von Befremden.

Y si morir fuera un querer despertar y un no despertar nunca?

I felt a great need to tell him how I was surrounded, overwhelmed, by things of unknown or dubious meaning, things that weren't commensurate to me in any way.

But to me it seemed that one had always been midway the journey of our life, and would be maybe right up until the moment of death.

Atheists believe simplicity is a virtue when it is precisely this that weighs so heavily on their souls.

Neurosis, he said, in the nearest he came to a definitive definition, is the suffering of a soul that has not found its meaning.

I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.

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

Il problema è che il mondo è un problema e certo non saremo noi a risolverlo, avrebbe voluto dire Pereira.

Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.

The evidence is all around us. For instance, do you know what happens if you type the words "why am I" into Google? Before you can type the next word, Google's autocomplete function—based on the most common searches—helpfully offers to finish your thought. The first suggestion: "why am I so tired?" The global zeitgeist perfectly captured in five words. The existential cry of the modern age. And

Verden var et jævelig sted, det hendte så mye som jeg verken kunne begripe eller forstå.

Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on." The older woman poured herself a glass of sangria. "Screw that," she said quietly. "What?" "Screw that. Wash your mouth out. Who taught you that half-assed existential drivel?

The most inexplicable paradox of the work of art is that it seems to exist for itself and yet not for itself; that it addresses itself to a concrete, historically and sociologically conditioned public, but seems, at the same time, to want to have no knowledge at all of a public.

the failure of communication is more often existential than merely lingual. Is there anything more miraculous than the unsimple event of words becoming

The crisis of our time is essentially a religious crisis. It is a matter of life or death.

I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.

ISIL is inspiring groups that already exist to rebrand themselves, but in rebranding themselves into a more radical ideology. That's what makes it dangerous.