Quotes About Existential

Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues?

Philosophy is really homesickness.

Against classical philosophy: thinking about eternity or the immensity of the universe does not lessen my unhappiness.

Nothing is more futile than looking for meaning in things that have none.

If life is a prison, then death is the ultimate freedom.

I awoke to a daymare. Life.

We can't be searching for the meaning of life, at each moment of our life! We need to go out there and live each moment!

Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.

For the mind of every man is balanced upon the creative tension within him of conceptual mediation between the opposed polarities of the finite and the infinite, the essential and the existential. the exact equation between them is responsible for the basic human types, which, in aesthetics, constitute the classical and the romantic temperaments.

Is this crushing loneliness I feel just for you, or is it really, underneath, the harsh metallic edge of existential longing?" "That's the airport talking.

Religion is born out of questions, not answers.

Right now I would submit that lack of self-knowledge is an existential risk. An inability to act with global intent and consideration of multigenerational timescales is an existential risk.

wandering between two worlds, one lost, the other powerless to be born.

If there is a God, why did he make me an atheist?

There is a widespread sense of loss here, if not always of God, then at least of meaning.

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going

Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he?

Why is God making me suffer so much? Just because I don't believe in him?

I have found God, but he is insufficient.

It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.

Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind.

The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.