Quotes About Existential

It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somewhere an element is lacking which would permit me to continue.

There's a big difference, I discovered, between wanting to die and not wanting to live. When you want to die, you at least have a goal. When you don't want to live, you're really just empty.

In his last days on this earth, he'd wanted to know if this was all there was.

Rather like "Orwellian", the term "Kafkaesque" has come to be used, often enough by those who have not read a word of Kafka , to describe what are perceived as typically or even uniquely modern traumas: existential alienation, isolation and insecurity, the labyrinth of state bureaucracy, the corrupt or whimsical abuse of totalitarian power, the impenetrable tangle of legal systems, the knock on the door in the middle of the night….

now Dolly couldn't seem to stop herself from asking, Is this it? Is this my life?

Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.

What's wrong—what's the matter with you?" Nothing, nothing's the matter, I've merely taken a leap outside my fate, and now I don't know where to turn, what to run for. . . .

for it is likely that the apogee of metaphysical torment is to be located well before that universal insipidity which followed the advent of Philosophy.

Nu am dureri de cap, ci mai r?u: o ap?sare permanent? pe creier, o not? funebr? în spirit.

For every discomfort is only an abortive metaphysical experience.

It is this outer reach of existential abnegation – the moment where subjective identity deserts itself and becomes enslaved without consciousness of its subjugated condition – that Mirbeau consistently sought to decry with horror.

Hell was always for other people.

And us? Just another belch in the darkness. Sound but not word, noise without meaning.

We begin by stating that religion is unbelief. It is a concern, indeed, we must say that it is the one great concern, of godless man.

She said I know what it's like to be dead I know what it is to be sad And she's making me feel like I've never been born

As a black person of non-gender-conforming experience, my first existentially reciprocal and affirming experiences were in the New York ballrooms.

To me, nothing feels more like being dead than being in your 20s and having no direction in your life.

He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable. What certainty had he that a single human creature now living was on his side?

Just before she Gertrude Stein died she asked, `What is the answer?' No answer came. She laughed and said, `In that case, what is the question?

The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.

The real existential challenge is to live up to your fullest potential, along with living up to your intense sense of responsibility and to be honest to yourself about what you want.

If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a prince, and he says, 'To be or not to be.'"

Sometimes I have a terrible suspicion that the whole tragedy, from first to last, has no meaning.

Theatre has no memory, which makes it the most existential of the arts... I keep coming back in the hope that someone in a darkened room somewhere will show me an image that burns itself into my mind