Quotes About Existential

He experienced that thrilling social vertigo that accompanies total freedom in a context of pointlessness.

Comoquiera que fuese, su pesimismo natural, su difícil ajuste de cuentas con el pasado, se habían paliado en el diálogo con una memoria mineral, objetiva, obediente, irresponsable, transistorizada, tan humanamente inhumana que era capaz de aliviarle su habitual malestar existencial.

China no doubt wonders how Americans can feel any patriotic unity or affection, the bonding agent of classical citizenship, for a country so confessedly and irredeemably racist and divided. No wonder, then, indications arose that in 2020 China was directly funding various identity politics groups within the United States, apparently on the theory that their adherence to tribalism weakened Beijing's existential rival.50

There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.

Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored.

why comes there an hour when we leave this azure, and why does life continue afterwards?

El problema nuestro no es que nos vamos a morir; es que no sabemos como vivir.

Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.

I know in an existential sense that life can change on a dime ... something has instantly and inexorably changed in American life.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

Oh, for Time's sake, this is too pathetic. You'd end the universe, because you've had a bad century?

everybody was terribly distracted by the seemingly unending, white-hot, existential, logistical, mostly mundane troubles of their own day-to-day lives.

Het graf gaapt, de tijd zoemt en nergens is redding.

Más terrible que morir es no saber para qué se vive.

All the metaphors in this world wouldn't scratch the surface of what stepping into darkness is like for me. And that's just darkness. Don't get me started on light. Really, don't get me started on light.

shoved by shock too young into the truth that nothing meant anything.

Je me demande si ma vie ne sera jamais rien de plus: quelque chose où rien ne sera jamais réalisé, sans victoire, sans signification d'aucune sorte

And no matter what I was doing, another me sat in my belly, absolutely cold with terror over the question of my life.

And yet even this was not as real as my despairing sense that nothing was real for me, nothing would ever be real for me again--unless, indeed, this sensation of falling was reality.

We human beings now have the power to exterminate ourselves; this seems to be the entire sum of our achievement. We have taken this journey and arrived at this place in God's name. This, then, is the best that God (the white God) can do. If that is so, then it is time to replace Him—replace Him with what? And this void, this despair, this torment is felt everywhere in the West, from the streets of Stockholm to the churches of New Orleans and the sidewalks of Harlem.

Noir works, whether films, novels, or short stories, are existential, pessimistic tales about people, including(or especially) protagonists, who are seriously flawed and morally questionable.

How, and when shall these things come to pass? wherefore are our years few and evil?

Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.

Who knows but life be that which men call death, And death what men call life?