Quotes About Existential

I see the life draining out of her and something else taking its place, but I don't know what. Maybe that's the problem. Maybe nothing is taking its place.

imagine you are an astronaut alone in space. no planets in view. no spacecraft. no distant stars. no source of light. imagine the latent terror, the quiet of space, the strange sensation of floating, the unspeakable dark between wealth of stars.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

We had a joke, Langley and I: Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.

Mi único trauma es la vida.

Christ, what I wouldn't give to be something other than a human being.

and yet I feel that I cannot go on living forever;

Either I wake up in the Grey Zone,' he whispered, 'and I've forgotten how to breathe, and my feet are so far away I'm not sure I can afford the air fare;

Maybe someday we will find refuge in true reality. In the meantime, can I just say how opposed I am to all of this?

qué esperar?, ¿cuándo?, ¿hasta dónde?, ¿por qué?, ¿para qué? Su interior se deshacía paulatinamente como un grifo mal construido. Algo goteaba horrorosas partículas de dolor. Algo, algo.

Se puede llegar a morir de abstracción

Displacement results in a tenuous relationship with the past, with the self that used to exist and operate in a different place, where the qualities that constituted us were in no need of negotiation. Immigration is an ontological crisis because you are forced to negotiatet the conditions of your selfhood under pereptually changing existential circumstances.

No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.

Sci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end of our existence. My novel, 'The 5th Wave,' explores the latter scenario, because, frankly, I believe it represents the likeliest outcome of an extraterrestrial encounter. In short, if they're out there, we better hope they never find us.

'The 5th Wave' is sci-fi, but I tried very hard to ground the story in very human terms and in those universal themes that transcend genre. How do we define ourselves? What, exactly, does it mean to be human? What remains after everything we trust, everything we believe in and rely upon, has been stripped away?

I think Australia is pretty much living the last day on Earth in a lot of ways.

No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only gets stronger and stronger. We cannot escape these spiritual hungers.

The climate emergency is and remains the existential crisis of our times and we cannot forget about it because it has not forgotten about us.

We must recognize that we cannot allow the Islamic State to continue to present an existential threat to America.

AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies.

'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.

She means like - we're here to be here. To live. that's why you lived, Bridge. You lived to live. Just like everyone else.

Qué pasa, qué pasa. Y no sentí miedo. Y no sentí tristeza. Y no sentí nada. Porque todo eso lo había sentido tanto que ya ni cuenta me daba si era que siempre lo estaba sintiendo o si ya no lo podía volver a sentir aunque quisiera.

The reason all of this is so horrible," McVries said, "is because it's just trivial. You know? We've sold ourselves and traded our souls on trivialities.