Quotes about Existential

He wanted to put his head down on the desk, lie still and rest, only the form of rest he needed did not exist, greater than sleep, greater than death, the rest of having never lived.

Often, warriors find their lives meaningless.

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The spiritual journey is the relinquishment—or unlearning—of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts. Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life.

Deepest within every person there is nonetheless an anxiety about being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the millions and millions in this enormous household.

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to observe it. Antiparticle:

Why is there something rather than nothing? Why do we exist? Why this particular set of laws and not some other?

What we desperately do want to avoid is not merely suffering but suffering without meaning.

Fundamentally we feel that we really belong to death already, and that every new day is a miracle.

It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die.

words like 'mystery' and 'soul' and 'the source of life' came in over and over again, as they sat on the bed talking, with nothing to do and nothing to believe and nowhere better to go.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.