Quotes About Existential

Black America surely faces an existential crisis, but not the one imagined in the condescending news media - of somehow getting non-black America to be more just and generous. The truth is, we've already been through that, and there is nothing left to do. We're out of 'affirmative actions' of all kinds.

Being on the spiritual path means you want to be a success in an existential sphere, not just on a social level.

The Sims is an escapist vehicle for people who want to escape to where they already are, which is why I thought this game was made precisely for me.

Old men and the dead stood at the same wall, and while the dead faced it, old men held their backs to it. Beyond that wall was oblivion. They spoke from the end times, and both knew a need to lead the young onto identical paths, if only to give meaning to all they had known and all they had done.

Man and woman both, there was an age that, when reached, made the world beyond seem to fall away, drained of colour, devoid of significance. To live as a thing no longer desired but tolerated, at best humoured. To reach that age was to know the light in the eyes dimming – the first spark to wink out, and from that moment on, the shadows just crept ever closer.

The glory of endemic existential angst invites in one the conviction that nothing good will come of anything, so there is no way you can actually disappoint me since I'm already disappointed down to the very core of my being.

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

Evidence suggests that the tendency to believe in conspiracy theories is driven by motives that can be characterized as epistemic (needing to understand one's environment), existential (needing to feel safe and in control of one's environment), and social (needing to maintain a positive image of oneself and one's in-group) (Douglas et al., 2017).

I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.

It was the cry of someone who'd looked in the abyss, someone who had previously not even known the abyss existed. It was the sound of a soul tearing.

We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.

I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, 'soul.'

Everything I do is somehow rooted in humanity. It's always about people; it's always about ego. It's always about desperation. It's quite existential. You know, 'Am I leading a good life?' That might be because I'm an atheist, and I think this is all we've got, so you better be nice. And have fun.

Is the murk which lives inside me, actually a dead star?

Main Street is as dead as ever. There's a blinding white light at the water-tower end of it and Jesus standing in the centre of it in a pale blue robe with his arms out, palms up, like he's saying how the hell would I know? I'm just a carpenter.

The distance between death and life is not as great as you imagine.

Here's the thing, he said. People see me as a bridge. I'm not as alive as I used to be, but I'm not yet dead. I'm sort of...in-between

People see me as a bridge.I'm not as alive as I used to be, but I'm not yet dead. I'm sort of .....in-between.

Qual é o significado de tudo isso? Qual o objetivo dessa tristeza toda? Deve ter algum propósito, ou então o universo é governado pelo acaso. Mas qual é o propósito?

In]the too solid three-dimensional city, I could never feel myself as anything but spectral, disintegrating, pointless, fluid.

Although climate change will ultimately be an existential threat to all of humanity, in the short term we know that it does discriminate, hitting the poor first and worst

Indeed, the climate crisis, by presenting our species with an existential threat and putting us on a firm and unyielding science-based deadline, might just be the catalyst we need to knit together a great many powerful movements bound together by a belief in the inherent worth and value of all people and united by a rejection of the sacrifice zone mentality, whether it applies to peoples or to places.

They mean, quite simply, that climate change has become an existential crisis for the human species.

I love having existential crises at bedtime, it's so restful.