Quotes About Existential

That's life, Ash", the boy called into his ear. "There ain't no why, and there ain't no answers.

The world is a confusing place, meaningful and meaningless at once.

There was no audience, no one to perform for. There was no need to define myself. I became irrelevant.

When in the evening we are alone with our most existential thoughts, it is then that we come face to face with the most precious truths that we discover in our brief existence in this world. Just before fatigue envelopes us, taking us into sleep. We think of what our lives actually mean. And then we know how lucky we are if we still enjoy consciousness, rationality and love. But the greatest of these is love.

random outcomes of contingent fate in an arbitrary and uncaring universe.

it would be accurate to say that despair is the most precious sickness known to man, and so there is no reason to despair…if you are suffering from 'existential despair', since this is potentially your 'ticket' to freedom.

Being a Trump staffer had become an existential predicament: even if you wanted to get out, and almost all of them did, there was nowhere to go.

la vie se caractérise par de longues plages d'ennui confus, elle est le plus souvent singulièrement morne; puis tout à coup une bifurcation apparaît, et cette bifurcation s'avère definitive.

Certains lundis de la toute fin novembre, ou du début de décembre, surtout lorsqu'on est célibataire, on a la sensation d'être dans le couloir de la mort. Les vacances d'été sont depuis longtemps oubliées, la nouvelle année est encore loin ; la proximité du néant est inhabituelle.

Quand viendra la mort ?

Pero en realidad no hay nada que impida el regreso, cada vez más frecuente, de esos momentos en que tu absoluta soledad, la sensación de vacuidad universal, el presentimiento de que tu vida se acerca a un desastre doloroso y definitivo, se conjugan para hundirte en un estado de verdadero sufrimiento. Y, sin embargo, todavía no tienes ganas de morir.

Certains lundis de la toute fin novembre, ou du début de décembre, surtout lorsqu'on est célibataire, on a la sensation d'être dans le couloir de la mort. Les vacances d'été sont depuis longtemps oubliées, la nouvelle année est encore loin ; la proximité du néant est inhabituelle." Incipit

I'm twenty-eight years old and I hate my life. I never have the time or the energy to work out how to change it. On Sundays I trail round a museum to keep warm, or lose myself in a library book, or fiddle with the wireless. But Monday's already looming. And always I've got this panicky feeling inside, because I know I'm getting nowhere, just keeping myself alive. Tacked

It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?

Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part, and does not believe in the play.

en el fondo del abismo se encuentran la desesperación sentimental y volitiva y el escepticismo ra cional frente a frente, y se abrazan como hermanos. Y

Leander: "I've been dead for three days now. And you?

Death doesn't frighten me, except to make me feel that life is ephemeral.

Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.

Maybe we've always asked the wrong question. We should ask ourselves about the meaning of death, rather than life. Are we not alive now?

Eliza wonders if death is not a sleep you can't wake up from but life reduced to one inescapable moment.

The way I see it, I'm dead, and so are you. What do dead people do for fun around here?

I love having existential crises at bedtime, it's so restful.

Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad -- at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.