Quotes About Existential

So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.

They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing.

I have only one curiosity left: death.

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

The worst moment for the atheist is

and that revelation murdered all that I once did know. Where once I asked of the God, 'Who are you?' now I ask, 'Who am I?

So much is happening and yet nothing at all.

Why must man struggle to live, when he inevitably dies?

Philosophy could be severed from life.

we've become hollow men, stuffed men, heads filled with straw, no convictions or higher purpose…and for hollow men, the world will end not with a bang but a whimper.

Even though comfort based on an illusion is itself illusory, it is for a while a deliverance from the anxiety and existential dread that the world today can generate in abundance.

Although he has perhaps breathed in hundreds of billions—even trillions—of programmed archaea that are carrying longevity-fostering genes from many species, perhaps it is a mistake to regard the breach of the organism-isolation labs as an existential crisis.

There's a dizzying thrill in a philosophy that can only be tested by suicide.

Generally the closest I ever came to wondering about the meaning of it all was to consider that I must be the victim of a joke.

My God, he thought, I'm going to die before I've been born.

Not then, at least, because Claire had met her—would meet her? Earlier? Later? She hadn't died, but was she dead? She must be now, mustn't she, and yet—damn this twistiness! How could he even think about it coherently?

I have felt that some sort of awful shame is attached to my name and that I have somehow brought this shame along from somewhere I have never been, and that I have carried this sin as my sin even though I have never committed it; this sin pursues me all my life, which life is undoubtedly not my own even thought I live it , I suffer from it die of it.

I am a dead man who wanders registered nowhere

[I] asked people to quantify themselves on a scale of one to 100 percent gay, and I watched so many existential crises unfold in front of me. People didn't know what to do, because they had never been presented with the option before.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

There are people in this world who are doomed to die, and there are people who have not yet begun to live.

The book I'm looking for,' says the blurred figure, who holds out a volume similar to yours, 'is the one that gives the sense of the world after the end of the world, the sense that the world is the end of everything that there is in the world, that the only thing there is in the world is the end of the world.

I'm accustomed to thinking of literature as a search for knowledge; in order to move onto existential terrain I need to consider it in relation to anthropology, ethnology, and mythology.

You all have a universally fatal condition. It's called pre-death.