Quotes About Existential

Ilove having existential crises at bedtime, it's so restful. I lay awake for at least an hour after the final bell, staring furiously at the blue flicker of the gaslight by the door.

Ik vind het heerlijk om vlak voor ik naar bed ga een existentiële crisis te hebben, het is zo rustgevend.

Quizá su momento aún no había pasado. Quizá le quedaba todavía una razón para seguir viviendo.

Jared never prayed, because the idea of a loving God seemed out of sync with the facts of the world.

I know, but what is it all about? People loose and at the same time caught. Caught and loose. All these people and you don't know what joins them up. There's bound to be some sort of reason and connection. Yet somehow I can't seem to name it. I don't know." "If you did you would be God," said Berenice. "Didn't you know that?

I'm equally terrified by life and ecstatic to be living it at the same time.

All a man has in the world is the now, the day and the hour where he is, because tomorrow is an entirely different world.

The sadness grew within her until she seemed to exist only as a dark nimbus of melancholy, and even Max could no longer cheer her with his talk and his

Because if you imagine yourself truly alone, islanded off from everybody else, you end up facing, whether you want to or not, a lot of gnarly, unsettling questions.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

There was a sense of being in the midst of something having prodigious weight and volume but no form, of being utterly unable to utilize past experience.

Tess, on her part, could not understand why a man of clerical family and good education, and above physical want, should look upon it as a mishap to be alive. For the unhappy pilgrim herself there was a very good reason. But how could this admirable and poetic man ever have descended into the Valley of Humiliation, have felt with the man of Uz - as she herself had felt two or three years ago - my soul chooseth strangling and death rather than my life. I loathe it ; I would not live always.

Existential dread] is the profound awareness that one is capable of ultimate bad faith with himself and with others: that one is living a lie.

Contemplation does not arrive at reality after a process of deduction, but by an intuitive awakening in which our free and personal reality becomes fully alive to its own existential depths, which open out into the mystery of God. For

Contemplation, on the contrary, is the experiential grasp of reality as subjective, not so much "mine" (which would signify "belonging to the external self") but "myself" in existential mystery. Contemplation does not arrive at reality after a process of deduction, but by an intuitive awakening in which our free and personal reality becomes fully alive to its own existential depths, which open out into the mystery of God.

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

Man, I want to die, is all, cried Ploy. Don't you know, said Dahoud, that life is the most precious possession you have?

I wasn't glad that I hadn't died. And I wasn't sad that I hadn't. I wasn't anything.

GET RID OF MEANING. YOUR MIND IS A NIGHTMARE THAT HAS BEEN EATING YOU: NOW EAT YOUR MIND.

Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.

Life is a question asked by God about the way he exists.

We feed on the world in increasingly desperate attempts to compensate for feelings of incompleteness, separation, and alienation. This is a sorry way to live.

There are so many little dyings How do we know which one of them is death?

Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.