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Quotes About Existential

The blues is also existential and offers a sense of mature reflection that enabled it to be the leitmotif of modern life.
~ Lewis Gordon
Why was I here? What now? Who did I know? Not even myself.
~ John Fante
What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?
~ John Kilian Houston Brunner
koinophobia the fear that you've lived an ordinary life.
~ John Koenig
Estas se corresponden con las tres perspectivas que discutí en el capítulo 6: pensar es normativo, actuar es situacional y sentir es existencial.
~ John M. Frame
I'm scared that out there, someday I'll look around and realize forty years have passed and no one can see me. That I'm gone.
~ Elisabeth Thomas
I was wondering, frankly, what kind of pointless gesture I could make just so I wouldn't feel like I was just dying passively.
~ Elizabeth Bear
She was in that flagging mood when to go on living seems only to load more unmeaning moments on to your memory.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general, but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment." At
~ Elizabeth Lesser
I want to care, but I don't. I look at you and all I feel is tired. I walk through school and all I want to do is leave. I wake up in the morning and don't know why I'm here. I feel like I'm not real.
~ Elizabeth Scott
I want to care, but I don't. I look at you and all I feel is tired. I walk through school and all I want to do is leave. I wake up in the morning and don't know why I'm here. I feel like I'm not real. I feel like I died when everyone else on the plane did and I'm the only one who's noticed.
~ Elizabeth Scott
I wonder if we are all condemned forever to live outside the grace of God.
~ Elizabeth Strout
What am I doing here?
~ Arthur Rimbaud
You do not die to know about death
~ Arul N S
Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn't have to come in contact with it.
~ Susan Orlean
Many people in their teens wonder about these big questions - what's the meaning of life, what are we doing here - then somewhere in their 20s, they seem to say, 'I'll just get married. I'll just have kids. I'll get back to that later.' But they never do. For me, it kept boiling.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Sometimes I wonder if the world is too interesting and too boring at the same time.
~ Douglas Coupland
With the transcendent or supernatural, they help us contextualize our own lives while we are here on this earth. On a narrative level, as a storyteller, they are a wonderful tool and technique by which to explore those hopes, those fears, those existential dilemmas that we all face from time to time.
~ David Lowery
I was drawn to astronomy by a teenage existential quest. Around 13, I was deep into wondering about the meaning of life and what I was doing here. I turned to religion, but that did nothing for me. I got to wondering where was here. So, I began studying astronomy and became enthralled by what I learned.
~ Carolyn Porco
The problems of a period are the existential crises of what can be but hasn't yet been resolved; and regardless of how seriously we take that word 'resolved,' if there were not some new possibility, there would be no crisis - there would be only despair.
~ Rollo May
The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber.
~ Michael Mullen
Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
~ Ban Ki-moon
Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel.
~ Robert M. Gates
Admitting hundreds of thousands of infiltrators is an existential threat to the State of Israel.
~ Eli Yishai