Quotes About Existential

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness.'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

I felt the sort of soaring, ceilingless tedium that transcends tedium and becomes worry.

It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.

From that day, whether I could articulate it satisfactorily or not,' Day says, holding the knee of the leg just crossed, 'I understood on an intuitive level why people killed themselves. If I had to go for any length of time with that feeling I'd surely kill myself.' 'Time in the shadow of the wing of the thing too big to see, rising.

When you're meeting a whole lot of new people and having to do things you're in—I'm in a constant low-level state of anxiety. Which produces adrenaline, and kind of shuts down—there's a difference between short-term, people-based anxiety. And sort of deep, existential, you know, fear, that you feel all the way down to your butthole. And that, I, that's…that's what I'll have when I'm alone.

Y cuando volvió en sí, estaba echado de espaldas en una playa sobre la arena muy fría y caía la lluvia de un cielo bajo y la marea estaba lejana.

Of course it's true that an unprecedented number of young Americans have big disposable incomes, fine tastes, nice things, competent accountants, access to exotic intoxicants, attractive sex partners, and are still deeply unhappy.

To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come?

How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world.

Yet if she did not quite exist in the full flood of sunlight, which is the hackneyed metaphor for good health, she was comfortably and safely far away from that abyssal darkness down into which she had nearly strayed.

Mankind has never been in this position before. Without having improved appreciably in virtue or enjoying wiser guidance, it has got into its hands for the first time the tools by which it can unfailingly accomplish its own extermination.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Why not? Life is short, life is dull, life is full of pain - and this is a chance for something special.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering—and it's all over much too soon.

Suddenly, one day, out of nowhere, an enormous abyss opened up beneath our feet and I was staring into a face I didn't recognize.

I'm an existential teleological aetheist. I believe there is an underlying intelligence to the universe, with the exception of certain parts of New Jersey.

A realidade é chata, mas ainda é o único lugar onde se pode comer um bom bife

Oh, my play. It's about risk, taking chances. It's about a Jewish woman forced to make existential choices." "What's it called?" "Thus Spoke Sarah Shuster.

What if I've been wrong all these years? he thought. What if the infinite universe does not have a personal grudge against me?

P?catul e?ec existen?ial.

A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?" "Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.

Only once did she ask a tragic question: who am I? It frightened her so much that she completely stopped thinking.

Qué hay después de la felicidad?