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Quotes About Existential

What an embarrassment that was, being somewhere because there was nowhere else for you to be.
~ Marilynne Robinson
I am in a state of categorical unbelief. I don't even believe God doesn't exist, if you see what I mean. (Jack Boughton)
~ Marilynne Robinson
No saber la hora lo angustió de nuevo. A veces lo olvidaba, pero la menor inquietud, duda, zozobra, hacía que la punzante ansiedad de no saber en qué momento del día o de la noche se hallaba le produjera hielo en el corazón, la sensación de haber sido expulsado del tiempo, de vivir en un limbo donde no existían el antes, el ahora ni el después
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
So often these days she seemed to hover between worlds, none of them wholly real.
~ Mark Haddon
Nothing rose to plug the gap, to address what some called "ultimate concerns," unless you count the arts, the arts that lacked both epistemological methods and accountability, and that drew nutty people, or drove them nuts.
~ Annie Dillard
There are times in one's, life in which the absence of all savour seems to be sufficient for life in this world. Were
~ Anthony Trollope
Mario mantuvo su mirada en los ojos de ella y durante medio minuto intentó que su cerebro lo dotara de las informaciones mínimas para sobrevivir el trauma que lo oprimía: quién soy, dónde estoy, cómo se respira, cómo se habla.
~ Antonio Skármeta
Philosophy can make people sick.
~ Aristotle
Ik zou of niet meer dood willen of ik zou gewoon willen sterven. Alles wat daartussenin zit vind ik eigenlijk geen oplossing.
~ Arnon Grunberg
Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?
~ Arthur C. Clarke
God was just this black void that we cried into.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
had often been said that the only thing that could unite Mankind was a threat from space.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
No era el miedo a los abismos galácticos lo que helaba su alma, sino una más profunda inquietud, que brotaba desde el futuro aún por nacer.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Some nights he thinks they are just a dream God is having
~ Silas House
We are living through a period bereft of a future. Waiting for that which is to come is no longer a matter of hope, but of anguish.
~ Simone Weil
But she knew that she still had no plan in life, save always to go along the same streets, past the same people, to the same shops.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Soren Kierkegaard
~ love yourself.
Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully.
~ Glen Duncan
There are various tough problems yet to solve, and we must shift to live, betwixt spirit and matter, such a human life as we can.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to happen to a person ... To speak as though it were an objective knowledge, like the date of the war of 1812, misses the point altogether.
~ Ira Progoff
What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!
~ James Boswell
You had a near life experience.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
~ Woody Allen
I went to the club to escape my life and pretend I'm somebody else. Now I don't know who I am anymore.
~ E. Leo Foster