211 Quotes About Existential

Love is a sensible phenomenon, but not intelligible. You cannot know whether you love or not; you can only feel it in your heart and soul. Love as a knowable phenomenon is not an act of love itself, but a rational 'illusory' design of the intellect, an act of psychological adaptation to the environment. To support the existential meaning of your being in this environment, your intellect provides you with an artificial mental programming system.

Because it was my crime to have no one on Earth who cared for me, or loved me.

At the end of time I want my art to stand up and my soul to bow down.

[...] nothing is ever only good and nothing is ever only bad. Everything is somewhere in the middle.

It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered good by the most highly placed people, those scarcely noticeable impulses which he had immediately suppressed, might have been the real thing, and all the rest false.

Unseen in their flight,wild geese faintly call,passing high overhead,in the depths of night.Instinctive travelers,on invisible highways.I envy their lack of lostness.

There’s real evil, Mr Honey. Not that existential crap, either.

En alguna parte hay un lugar vacío y ese vacío se llenará de mí y yo me asentaré en ese hueco que insesiblemente rebosará de mí, pleno de mí hasta volverse fuente o surtidor. Y mi vacío, el vacío de mí que soy ahora, se llenará de sí, pleno de ser hasta los bordes.

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.