Quotes About Existential

Marc Marronnier is twenty-seven years old, he has a beautiful apartment, a cool job and still he doesn't kill himself. Go figure.

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Entonces, ¿usted por qué sigue viviendo?».

To not want to be alive is not the same thing as wanting to be dead.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

You are eternity's hostageA captive of time.

I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.

I have no mouth. And I must scream...

Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.

There in the dim light, staring at the shadow on the wall, I poured out the story of my life. (…) How nothing touched me. And I touched nothing. How I'd lost track of what mattered. How I worked like a fool for things that didn't. How it didn't make a difference either way.

Living turned me into nothing. Weird... People are born in order to live, right? But the longer I've lived, the more I've lost what's inside me—and ended up empty. And I bet the longer I live, the emptier, the more worthless, I'll become. Something's wrong with this picture. Life isn't supposed to turn out like this! Isn't it possible to shift direction, to change where I'm headed?

I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling.

Beginnings are always like this. One minute everything exists, the next minute everything is lost.

I'm caught between one void and another. I have no idea what's right, what's wrong. I don't even know what I want any more.

What I felt then was a deep terror. And a kind of hopelessness, a feeling that I could never run away from this thing, no matter how far I went. And this creature, this thing doesn't give a damn that I'm me or you're you. In its presence, all human beings lose their names and their faces. We all turn into signs, into numbers.

The Purpose of Life is Life itself it

As women glide from their twenties to thirties, Shazzer argues, the balance of power subtly shifts. Even the most outrageous minxes lose their nerve, wrestling with the first twinges of existential angst: fears of dying alone and being found three weeks later half-eaten by an Alsatian.

I think you are born, and I think you die. I have a pragmatic nature, but I yearn to believe.

I think 'The Searcher' is a departure from my first because it's less grounded in religion and is far more rooted in the mythic tradition: more of an existential thriller where the main character is actually the central mystery, and his journey is all about trying to figure himself out.

Does somebody know why the consciousness of death has to die?

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

Nothing on earth exerts such pressure on the human soul as a void.

Nothing was done to us - we were simply placed in a complete void, and everyone knows that nothing on earth exerts such pressure on the human soul as a void.

I'm actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse.