Quotes About Existential

I didn't want to die. I just found death soothing to think about.

The individual is still obliged to confer the legitimacy of mutually antagonistic values, for even though the array of ultimate values may contract with the rationalization of the world, one is never relieved from the existential burden of choice ('taking a stand').

Cory didn't understand existential answers. Neither does life.

T]he upheavals [of artificial intelligence] can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic. Imagine how a medical robot, originally programmed to rid cancer, could conclude that the best way to obliterate cancer is to exterminate humans who are genetically prone to the disease." —NICK BILTON, tech columnist, The New York Times

It's as though all I am is my job. All I am is an empty shell. I look all right from a distance, but up close there's nothing there, nothing behind the pretty whorls and the brittle exterior. But I don't have that job anymore. No shell. But if I don't have that then what do I have?

Modern man's misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live one that is not mediocre.

El suicidio más acostumbrado en nuestro tiempo consiste en pegarse un balazo en el alma.

El suicidio más acostumbrado en nuestro tiempo es pegarse un balazo en el alma.

God, what is our life! An eternal discord between dream and reality!

Grief. Death was not an intellectual conceit. It was an existential black hole, an animal riddle, both problem and solution, and the grief it inspired could not be fixed or bypassed like a faulty relay, but only endured.

Death was not an intellectual conceit. It was an existential black hole, an animal riddle, both problem and solution, and the grief it inspired could not be fixed or bypassed like a faulty relay, but only endured. And

Death was not an intellectual conceit. It was an existential black hole, an animal riddle, both problem and solution, and the grief it inspired could not be fixed or bypassed like a faulty relay, but only endured.

Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence.

Geçmi? zamandan s?yr?l?p,?imdiki zamana bir yerinden tutunmak istedi.

Hiçbir zaman, olmamak ile olmak aras?ndaki kesin geçi?i görememi?imdir. (Güne?in tam do?du?u, yapra??n tam açt??? zaman;benim, bir ?eyi ilk dü?ündü?üm an.)

Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of the book and my longtime working understanding and definition of it, noir stories are bleak, existential, alienated, pessimistic tales about losers--people who are so morally challenged that they cannot help but bring about their own ruin.

Never mind having an existential crisis; it's been years since we've even been to the movies.

That was uncomfortable.Am I dead? No such luck

There better not be a God because I'll be in big trouble.

Être éveillé, c'est souffrir; voila le sens profond de la vie.

Usually, when I came home by myself at night, I would get to the corner or Rue Coustou and suddenly feel like I was leaving the present and sliding into a zone where time had stopped. And I was terrified of never being able to cross back, to return to Place Blanche, where life was being lived. I though I would remain forever a prisoner of that little street and that room, like Sleeping Beauty.

But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.

What are you?" Conor asked, pulling his arms closer around himself. I am not a "what," frowned the monster. I am a "who." "Who are you, then?" Conor said. The monster's eyes widened. Who am I? it said, its voice getting louder. Who am I? The

Hey, sister. What's your situation?" "On earth or in the universe?" p.27