Quotes About Existential

Life can be confusing. Good God, and how. Sometimes it seems like the older I get, the more confused I become. That seems ass-backwards. I thought I was supposed to be getting wiser. Instead, I just keep getting hit over the head with my relative insignificance in the greater scheme of the universe. Confusing, life.

I have this sense of being a prematurely old man in a quarrel with himself over the worth of his life, a hopelessly bullshit notion.

We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us

Particularly out here tonight, in this country so ominous and terrible that to live in it is to live with antimatter, it is difficult to believe that "the good" is a knowable quantity.

Ever been so high that you wanna kill yourself? Dude, you haven't lived...Until you wanna die.

For a single moment I want to feel like the universe isn't about to crush me and the heart isn't about to explode. I want to feel like I'm not about to die.

Merde! The single most useful word in the French language, easy to pronounce and eloquently expressive of conditions from the literally fecal to the unpleasantly existential.

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of live.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That for all they care, I can go to hell.

... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.

Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know it, then feel scared ?

I have no mouth. And I must scream.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.

We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us

We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner to the soundtrack of our own impending death.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

Why should I be worried about death?

I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?

Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.