Quotes About Existential

Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.

We live in a vacuous world, yet we do so with a feeling of urgency.

A "crisis" is not an objective state of affairs but a matter of interpretation. Populist will often eagerly frame a situation as a crisis, calling it an existential threat, because such a crisis then serves to legitimate populist governance.

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.

Hamlet would worry about having nothing to worry about if he had nothing to worry about

You described the feeling you'd always had of being misplaced, of always standing to one side of yourself, of watching yourself in the world even as you were being in the world, and wondering if this was how everyone felt. That you always believed that other people had a clearer idea of what they were doing, and didn't worry quite so much about why.

Elle pense qu'elle va mourir, qu'elle est jeune et qu'elle aussi, elle aurait bien aimé vivre.

All of [the] activities here have a surreptitious end-of-the-world feel to them:... these joggers sleepwalking in the mist like shadow's who have escaped from Plato's cave

I walk the line that continually threatens to lose its tautness under me, dropping me into the dark pit where there is no meaning.

Every day in my consultancy, I meet men and women who are out of their minds. That is, they have not the slightest idea who they really are or what it is that matters to them. The question 'How shall I live?' is not one I can answer on prescription.

The line between life and death is a couple of inches at most. The width of a door that connects two rooms.

At this very moment—it's frightful—if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing.

That was something. As opposed to nothing.

Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.

There is nowhere I encounter greater understanding for Israel's existential issues than in the Oval Office.

Everyone wavers between the emotionally still-alive past ad the already dead future. Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)

Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.

Because, really, what was worse than lying wide-awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another?

I worry about a lot of things, but I don't worry about achievements. I worry primarily about whether there are nightclubs in Heaven.

She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?

Are we on the verge of a new beginning for humanity, or the end of life as we know it? Read The Singularity is Coming now and decide for yourself.

another tactic being used to leverage more grant money from Congress—namely, the exaggeration of threats. Since the 1960s, environmental scientists have sequentially forecast existential threats from overpopulation, pollution, extinctions, global cooling, acid rain, global warming, stratospheric ozone depletion, low-level ozone increases, and fine-scale particulates. Ocean acidification looms on the horizon as the next threat.

He still felt coreless - he was no one, and he was standing here in the middle of no country. The place was counterfeit, a waiting room between connections, a transition from one way of being to another, which for the moment was neither way, no way.

I am the soul in limbo.