211 Quotes About Existential

My Life had stood-- a Loaded Gun

I always imagined that you might write something about me. I wanted to leave an imprint on your life. I don’t want to be “just another patient”. I wanted to be “special”. I want to be something, anything. I feel like nothing, no one. If I left an imprint on your life, maybe I would be someone, someone you wouldn’t forget. I’d exist then. (Marge’s letter to Yalom)

No estoy en el presente ni en el pasado. Cierro mis ojos para explorar lo que alguna vez fue mi soledad. La soledad donde tenía una lista de palabras vacías. Era una lista interminable. Con palabras que no cargaban nada. Ahora, los nombres en esa lista han cambiado. Son pocos. En mi cabeza, cada nombre carga un pedazo de mi memoria. Mi mente susurra los nombres en el silencio.

Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral.

We all have an opportunity and responsibility to create a legacy. A legacy which is resilient, sustainable and authentic." - Jim Cookson, Doctoral Student, Ashridge Business School, UK, August 2014

Life has existential suffering; we become happy by caring.

In humans (and humans alone), sexuality is embodied in desire--in the primordial desire for life-as-relation. That the sex drive serves the vital desire for relation--that on the level of the primordial process, the desire for life-in-itself clothes itself in the sex drive--belongs to the particularity of being human.

Each person must implement their preferred problem solving method to address existential questions pertaining to life and death, living and loving, working and playing, resting and restructuring.

But the days are a web of small troubles,And is there a greater blessingThan to be the ash of which oblivion is made?Pero los dias son una red de triviales miserias,y habra suerte mejor que la cenizade que esat hecho el ovido?