Quotes About Existential

But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the very instruments that threaten to bring universal suicide.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

They say life is a question and death is the answer.

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

She considered [her] life, which had not been a life but only a sort of greeting, a Hello There.

The sense that we are only the sum of our parts—whatever we achieve, however we appear, whatever we own, however we try to prove ourselves—is not a good sense. It's an existential crisis: Do I even exist? If you take away the masks I wear, is there only blank space underneath?

Most gifted adults were socialized in a way that encouraged them to dismiss such deep inquiry. Finding answers to their most profound existential speculations is a task that requires immeasurable courage and fortitude.

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

What a gift it was to be normal! We're all walking on these unseen tightropes when really we could slip at any second and come face to face with all the existential horrors that only lie dormant in our minds.

It is in the "being" not the "doing.

The problem is, if you study philosophy and stop believing in a meaning you start to need medical help.

But you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life,' he

I wanted to be dead. No. That's not quite right. I didn't want to be dead. I just didn't want to be alive.

I just don't understand life,' sulked Nora. 'You don't have to understand life. You just have to live it.

What a gift it was to be normal! We're all walking on these unseen tightropes when really we could slip at any second and come face to face with all the existential horrors that only lie dormant in our minds.)

Tis not the times, 'Tis not the Sophists vex him: There is some root of suffering in himself, Some secret and unfollow'd vein of woe, Which makes the times look black and sad to him. Empedocles on Etna: Act I, Scene I

The subject of sensation is a power that is born together with a certain existential milieu or that is synchronized with it.

It is a question of finding in the present, the flesh of the world an 'ever new' and 'always the same'--A sort of time of sleep. The sensible, Nature, transcend the past present distinction, realize from within a passage from one into the other. Existential eternity. The indestructible, the barbaric Principle. Do a psychoanalysys of Nature: it is the flesh, the mother. A philosophy of the flesh is the condition without which psychoanalysis remains anthropology.

It's the intellectual who transforms the concept of the world into the problem of meaning.

Znao sam da je sve moje dovedeno u pitanje. Sve — to je veoma neodre?eno, ali i veoma stvarno. To je izgubljenost i bespu?e, to je ispadanje sa životne staze a druga ne postoji, to je osje?anje užasa bez imena, zbog praznine i gluhog prostora što bi se mogao stvoriti oko tebe.

No one values their life less than a young man, and then later, the older he gets and the less reason he has for living, the more he clings to life.

I'll venture to suggest that we childless ones, whether through bravery or cowardice, constitute a kind of existential vanguard, forced by our own choices to face the naked question of existence with fewer illusions, or at least fewer consolations, than the rest of humanity, forced to prove to ourselves anew every day that extinction does not negate meaning.

The loser," as TAD guitarist Kurt Danielson explained to the Rocket, "is the existential hero of the Nineties.

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.