211 Quotes About Existential

...And meanwhile the Galaxy ran through space and left behind those signs old and new and I still hadn't found mine.

Не, благодаря – мисли той, – наместо възможности аз имам реални неща в моето минало, не само реалността на свършената работа и на изживяната любов, но и на храбро понесените страдания. Дори тези страдания са онова, с което се гордея най-много, макар и да не могат да възбудят завист.

Few are the birds who fly pass through the human heart

It might not be the circle of life,” Lamb says. “But it is the food chain. I didn’t see you feeling sorry for that pig we had for lunch. Or that rabbit you had for dessert. Everything eats something else.”I swing my head towards him. “What eats you?”He raises an eyebrow, giving me a taste of my own medicine. “Existential despair.

The river of time may have its rapids and its calmer stretches, but one thing would seem to be certain: it carries all of us, willy-nilly, in its flow. Irresistibly, irreversibly, we are being borne toward our deaths at the stark rate of one second per second. As the past slips out of existence behind us, the future, once unknown and mysterious, assumes its banal reality before us as it yields to the ever-hurrying now.

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.

«В сущности, я верю, что все происходит само собой, и человеку достаточно только мизинчиком подталкивать мир вперёд; тот уж знает, как надо».

I’d never ride a rocket into out space, so standing at the edge of the ocean was probably the closest I’d get to touching something boundless and greater than myself. For me, the ocean had a way of putting the rest of the world into context for a couple seconds.

Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing.