Quotes About Existential

The shortest horror story: The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.

It should not matter, but it does. I want to know how many hours of the night are gone and how many remain and that there is no good reason for my wanting to know does not stop the wanting.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

When you look into the abyss, the abyss looks into you.

The essence of God is existence, and He defines Himself as: "I am Who am." The essence of the devil is the lie, and he defines himself as: "I am who am not." Satan has very little trouble with those who do not believe in him; they are already on his side.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

Convention serves a purpose: It gives life meaning, and without it, one is in a constant existential crisis. If you don't have the imposition of family to remind you of what is at stake, something else will.

I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.

Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway.

I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.

Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life.

Universality is not an idea; it is an existential truth. It is individuality that is an idea. Yoga is simply chitta vritti nirodha. That means, if the activity of your mind ceases and you are still alert, you are in yoga.

all that you call your past exists only as memory… all that you call future exits only as imagination… these are the only two things that you are suffering right now: your memory and your imagination. Nothing more. Both memory and imagination exist only in your mind. They are aspects of your psychological reality; they have nothing to do with the existential reality.

It means beginning the journey from the psychological – maya – to the existential – Shi-va. And

He doesn't know which is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there's the future. Sheer vertigo.

You aren't sick & unhappy only alive & stuck with it.

More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.

I'm fine, said Pilar, for the moment. And the moment is the only time we can be fine in.

Just remember, dear Friends, What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.

But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning.

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space.

Oh God. It's no joke. Oh God oh God. How can I keep on living?

Is this purgatory, and if it is, why is it so much like the first grade?

A place with no handholds,no landmarks,no past at all:That would have been too much like dying