893 Quotes About Existentialism

This feeling of adventure definitely does not come from events: I have proved it. It’s rather the way in which the moments are linked together. I think this is what happens: you suddenly feel that time is passing, that each instant leads to another, this one to another one, and so on; that each instant is annihilated, and that it isn’t worth while to hold it back, etc., etc. (. . .) If I remember correctly, they call that the irreversibility of time.

I’m not looking forward to seeing the glorious sunset, albeit catching up the redemptive sunrise beyond its descending darkness. (— Danny Castillones Sillada, Here & Beyond)

When to see is to grieveAnd to know is to sufferWhen to live is a hellAnd to breathe is tougherWhy should I not——stop the beast in me,The desire to reproduceBut....What of the instinctualDrive of having sex?

Germ-line replicators, then, are units that actually survive or fail to survive, the difference constituting natural selection.

[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive.

Only when one allows themself the right to die, do they then give yourself the permission to live.

I know we didn't accomplish anything, but it felt great to sit there and talk about our place in things.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

I decided to give up meaningless sex, but then I remembered that everything is meaningless.