Quotes About Existential

We used to look up in the sky and wonder at our place in the stars; now, we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt.

When you stop believing in God, there is no sudden explosion of light or darkness. The world continues on its accustomed course. The sky does not fall. The sun still shines. Life goes on. But something is lost nonetheless, something important that gives life connectedness, depth and a sense of purpose; that gives you a feeling of participating in something vast and consequential.

People brush past us on the street in endless waves, leaving somewhere, headed somewhere else, laughing, smoking, speaking into cell phones, completely oblivious to the holocaust of an entire world casually imploding in their midst.

De aquí surge un nuevo hombre: embotado, repleto de cosas, pero vacío interiormente. Va a ir siguiendo la ruta de la ansiedad, que terminará en una forma especial de melancolía e indiferencia.

Quién soy? ¿Para qué vine al mundo? ¿Por qué no puedo encontrarle gusto a la vida?Los filósofos no son los únicos que se hacen estas preguntas: también los vividores profesionales. La diferencia es que nosotros no buscamos respuestas: sólo nutrimos con ella nuestra indolencia, y a veces, bajo el efecto del alcohol o las drogas, llegamos a sentir que la pereza contemplativa es un sello de distinción.

No se dan cuenta de que lo apocalíptico es de ahora, pero ya estaba en la noche de los tiempos y seguirá estando cuando nos hayamos ido. Lo apocalíptico es un señor o un sentimiento muy informal, que no merece tanto respeto.

Weimar Germany conjures up fears of what can happen when there is simply no societal consensus on how to move forward and every minor difference becomes a cause of existential political battles,

A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.

If nothing matters, why rage?

There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.

There is hardly one in three of us who live in the cities who is not sick with unused self.

what could be more obvious than the fact that they did not know what suffering was, that if they suffered from anything it was precisely this lack of suffering, a kind of neuropathy that came from too much ease, too much sugar, a kind of existential gout?

That's good. Life is full of riddles that only the dead can answer," was Dad's reply.

We receive our notions of Divine meaning from a three-millennia-old lineage stretching back to the ancient Jews; we receive our notions of reason from a twenty-five-hundred-year-old lineage stretching back to the ancient Greeks. In rejecting those lineages—in seeking to graft ourselves to rootless philosophical movements of the moment, cutting ourselves off from our own roots—we have damned ourselves to an existential wandering.

What Comfort can the Vortices of Descartes give to a Man who has Whirlwinds in his bowels!

There was an existential moment - I don't know if I want to call it crisis - when I turned 50 and I felt 'this is interesting; how did this happen?' It affected me in a way I wasn't expecting. It made me pause for reflection.

Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.

And then the strangest thought of all clattered drunkenly from the back of my brain to the front and blinded me: If I kill Amy, who will I be?

How are you, it wasn't a courtesy, it was an existential question.

I'd come to find the morning depressing, to know it would come again and again.

Para empezar: nunca debería haber nacido.

There is that difference between being kicked in the teeth and reading a description of being kicked in the teeth. Some call it existential.

None of us are going to get out of this alive so we might as well grab a laugh while we can.

We don't want to live like this, but we don't want to die