Quotes About Existential

We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?

?Everything that makes you, you, is a biologically existential expression of your entire brain.

I don't save lives," Zelikman said. "I just prolong their futility.

As a rule, they tended to avoid questions like "How sane are we?" and "Do our lives have meaning?" The need for avoidance was acute and apparent to both of them.

Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.

She is overtaken by a sensation of unbeing. There is no other word for it.

I've been just wondering lately, if this is, you know, it. An apartment and a steady job and some people to love. What more could I want?

fifth risk: the risk a society runs when it falls into the habit of responding to long-term risks with short-term solutions. "Program management" is not just program management. "Program management" is the existential threat that you never really even imagine as a risk.

No one lives in Ameeron by choice.' 'A veritable City of the Damned.' 'As the poet might remark, aye.' Rackhir offered Elric a sardonic wink. 'But I sometimes think all cities are that.'

What existential difference is there between the human being's role in this (or any) garden and the bumblebee's

Deep love creates deep fear. It looks like death because the I disappears, the you disappears - and it is a sort of death. And when you die, only then do you enter into the divine.

Love is a mistake when we're all going to die any day now.

I love writing stories about regular people dealing with life's biggest questions.

American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if … the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror.

There's something about death going on here.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me

The eternal silence of these infinite places fills me with dread.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.

The meaning of life is life itself.

Você não deve se entregar a tormentos e tristezas existenciais! Não é mais um menino, deve compreender o que lhe acontecerá se essa moça, filha do seu falecido amigo, essa criança, em vez de simples passatempo, vier a se tornar o objeto da sua loucura. Caia em si! Seja fiel a si mesmo, não traia seus hábitos. Senão, tudo voará pelos ares", pensava.

I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.

God, who am I?

I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed cavern, a pit of hell, a mimicking nothingness. I never thought, I never wrote, I never suffered. I want to kill myself, to escape from responsibility, to crawl back abjectly into the womb. I do not know who I am, where I am going - and I am the one who has to decide the answers to these hideous questions.