211 Quotes About Existential

For who are we if not the sum of our experiences, the things that we gather and collect in life? Once you strip those away, we become just a mass of flesh, bone, and blood vessels.

What are people but deaths that haven't happened yet?

In the beginning, nearly 14 billion years ago, all the space and all the matter and all the energy of the known universe was contained in a volume less than one-trillionth the size of the period that ends this sentence.

I shall never sleep again. Butthen—how shall I endure my own company?

In my mind I saw my own temples in ruins, before even one brick had been laid upon another.

There were dark hours, of course, such as came to everybody, in which you thought you had achieved nothing at all, in which it seemed to you that only the cases predestined from the start to seucceed came to a good end, which they would have reached in any event without your help, while every one of the others was doomed to fail in spite of all your manœuvres, all your exertions, all the illusory little victories on which you plumes yourself.

Some ideas are existential luxury.

She watched him with her yellow eyes and in them was no despair but only that same reckonless deep of loneliness that cored the world to its heart.

These colorful polaroidsAre like magical portalsLeading to places, emotions, and peopleWho had slipped into the midst of the forgotten,Into the odd ether of willful omittance.