Quotes about Existential

I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.

I wonder if he has any plans or if he is just as desperate as I am?

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

We're the middle children of history.... no purpose or place. We have no Great War, no Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.

Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.

I am always thinking 'What am I doing here? Is this the way I am supposed to feel?'

Having killed God, the atheist is left with no reason for being, no morality to espouse, no meaning to life, and no hope beyond the grave.

What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?

Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?

who meets us existentially in our greatest need and gives us the confidence and comfort that we are beloved and not orphaned in this world.

You're inches away from death every time you go on a mission. How much older can you be at your age?

Hope, on one hand, is an absurdity too embarrassing to speak about, for it flies in the face of all those claims we have been told are facts. Hope is the refusal to accept the reading of reality which is the majority opinion; and one does that only at great political and existential risk. On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that the present to which we have all made commitments is now called into question.