Existential Quotes
We each possess the ability creatively to respond to the ontological mystery of our existence.
There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.
There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or justifiable. You feel absurd.
They say I don’t exist. They say I am an extension, an indulgence, imagination of a schizophrenic person.
Who cares what we dream about? Just getting through each day is hard enough.
I believe that individuals nowadays are probably more aware of their inner loneliness than has ever been true before in history.
Self-questioning – an effort to get in touch with our essential self – is an endless stream of thought.
I don't know anything anymore. Is that normal? Is it normal to notice the enormity of everything and just go blank?
Suffering with another is typically not pure suffering
It’s maybe impossible to escape (your own head), but I guess the secret is the prison cell just gets bigger and bigger and bigger and prettier and prettier and prettier.
There’s real evil, Mr Honey. Not that existential crap, either.
With every increase in the degree of consciousness, and in proportion to that increase, the intensity of despair increases: the more consciousness the more intense the despair
With every increase in the degree of consciousness, and in proportion to that increase, the intensity of despair increases: the more consciousness the more intense the despair.
I'm a kindhearted but highly competitive pragmatist. When I seek to win something, I always make certain it's never at the expense of anything more serious than the inadequate efforts of others.
I like the way Twitter makes one be more concise.It looks like someone is saying sometthing wise
A person experiences anxiety when they realize their insignificance in the cosmic field, which present state of angst can exacerbated by other confusing life questions.
Let me not anchor you to a bed of weary rocks, but let me be the kite’s string that guides you in your flight.
It's wearying, like Caliban buttonholing you in hell and telling you the struggle he's having getting along with himself.
When it has finished saying it, it no longer is. The longer it is in saying it, the more it can say it at length, the more slowly it melts, the better quality it is.
Out of the decisions that we make in life, our Self emerges. What we choose in life is not the thing chosen out there, but oneself.
Every plant is an individual.Wrong again. We are not individuals at all, we are all connected. We are individuals the way each blossom on an apple tree is an individual.
Have you ever felt in your inmost being, the conscience of others?' again she was trembling, the words were not releasing her. 'It's intolerable you know
Do you believe we are masters of ourselves, or merely dance like puppets on strings having the illusion of independence?
...And meanwhile the Galaxy ran through space and left behind those signs old and new and I still hadn't found mine.
Would any of you like to share your career aspirations within the class? Jim?I dunno, to be honest, I was just hoping to be able to keep the demons away...