Quotes About Existential

It was doubtless true," she later wrote "that I was 'Weary of myself and sick of asking What I am and what I ought to be.

Their tail feathers ticked like weeds and one of them crowed nonstop, as if impatient. But impatience implies consciousness of time and a chicken is existential. I know that much about birds.

I could no longer reconcile my faith in God with the state of the world that I saw all around me.

But after the September 11, 2001, attacks, terrorism became an obsession. Pundits and politicians turned up the rhetoric to eleven, and the word existential (generally modifying threat or crisis) had not seen as much use since the heyday of Sartre and Camus.

In the 1854 classic Walden, Henry David Thoreau famously wrote, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." How a recluse living in a cabin on a pond could know this was never made clear, and the mass of men beg to differ.

Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.

I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.

The purpose of life is life.

I may not be old but I'm too old to have this much nothing

we are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness,

É a interação viva entre instituições sociais e realização criativa que mantém o mundo equilibrado sobre a linha estreita entre demasiada ordem e demasiado caos. É um imbróglio terrível; um autêntico fardo existencial.

Because we are so scientific now—and so determinedly materialistic—it is very difficult for us even to understand that other ways of seeing can and do exist. But those who existed during the distant time in which the foundational epics of our culture emerged were much more concerned with the actions that dictated survival (and with interpreting the world in a manner commensurate with that goal) than with anything approximating what we now understand as objective truth.

A halál pillanata mindig szokatlan idÅ'pont.

O homem-massa é o homem cuja vida carece de projetos e anda à deriva. Por isso não constrói nada, ainda que suas possibilidades, seus poderes, sejam enormes.

I have not lost the meaning of life, merely the illusion that life has a meaning.

I sat down and looked at the menu and thought how ironic it was that back then starving artists came to cafes like these because they lived on wine and street pigeons to survive, and now the same cafes are famous because of them and no starving artist can afford to eat there. It's hard to have an existential crisis when a glass of wine costs more than nine dollars.

Hace tiempo que lo de envejecer está asociado para mí a cierta inquietud. En general el espacio me importa una mierda, pero tengo problemas con el tiempo.

Besides, now I was thinking there just might be a God after all—that would explain who was currently fucking with my whole notion of reality.

the way, when you were still alive, d'you ever go looking for God?" "No," Leehee said, and offered me some gum. "But I didn't really have any reason to.

We need to be virtually bludgeoned into detachment from our daily lives, our habits and mental laziness, which conceal from us the strangeness of the world. Without a fresh virginity of mind, without a new and healthy awareness of existential reality, there can be no theatre and no art either; the real must be in a way dislocated, before it can be re-integrated.

This is what is meant by the phenomenology of the science-making process: Self-observation always leads us to an existential point about the metaphysics of experience, and it is almost always a transforming moment. (p. 286)

Our own era is one haunted by the shadow of futurity, precisely because there is no future.

In addition to the interpretive frameworks of the mythological (classical-Greek), the theological (Medieval-Christian), and the existential (modern-European), would it be possible to shift our framework to something we can only call cosmological? Could such a cosmological view be understood not simply as the view from inter-stellar space, but as the view of the world-without-us, the Planetary view?

A disgust and revulsion towards the species which has, as a further qualification, the disgust towards ourselves.