Quotes About Existential

Teachers, let me tell you, are born deceivers of the lowest sort, since what they want from life is impossible — time-freed, existential youth forever. It commits them to terrible deceptions and departures from the truth. And literature, being lasting, is their ticket.

This ought to have given him a whole storetank of existential rage, but somehow it didn't;

the hope that this activity would keep at bay the existential pain of our brief sublunary transit from birth to death.

And at three o'clock in the morning, as they lie beside us peacefully slumbering away, we wake up in a cold sweat, cheeks flushed, teeth clenched, hearts pounding, wondering: How many more laps do we have left? One hundred? One thousand? Six? Ninety-four? Isn't there somebody out there who can give us a clue?

Kaoru glanced behind him, and then allowed his organ to tower in the direction of the window that might be there in space somewhere; allowed it to insist on its existence.

Unless we find some significance in our lives, we mortal men and women fall very easily into despair.

There are different kinds of being lost, ranging from momentary disorientation to the complete, all-out, am-I-even-on-planet-Earth variety.

He was at that dangerous age when men suddenly notice that they're going to die eventually, inevitably, and there isn't a damn thing they can do about it, but that doesn't stop them from trying, whether it's shagging anything that moves or listening to early Bruce Springsteen and buying a top-of-the-range motorbike (a BMW K 1200 LT usually, thus considerably upping their chances of meeting death even earlier than anticipated).

Why should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed?

No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.

... engineering is a basic instinct in man, the expression of which is existentially fulfilling.

Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.

The existential split in man would be unbearable could he not establish a sense of unity within himself and with the natural and human world outside.

Whether arrived at through reason or revelation, natural law is the highest law known to man. It is anchored in the very existential nature of man and is therefore a priori just.

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

I ordered a wake-up call the other day. The phone rang and a woman's voice said, 'What the hell are you doing with your life?'

One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous bug.

I woke up every morning hoping to die and then spent the rest of the day wondering if maybe I was already dead because I couldn't even tell the difference.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?

It is obvious that humanity faces existential threats of a global nature. They are global in the sense that is not possible to deal with them unless we resort to global governance.

Biology is run by intricate cellular mechanisms. Cellular mechanisms are run by Nature. Thus, the more we attempt to understand Nature, the more we get closer to our existential properties.

Horror alone brings peace of mind.

Who am I, why am I here? Forget the question, someone give me another beer.

What if life is just a cosmic joke, like spiders in your underwear.