Existential Quotes Quotes

Quotes tagged as "existential-quotes" Showing 1-10 of 10
John Mark Green
“We are snowflakes, melting
on the tongue of the universe.”
John Mark Green, Taste the Wild Wonder: Poems

Mouloud Benzadi
“My only wish when my life draws to an end:
A smile that whispers I don't fear being dead.
My body fades, but my soul remains unbroken,
As I leave a world I have never chosen.”
Mouloud Benzadi

Jean-Paul Sartre
“One always dies too soon — or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.”
Jean-Paul Sartre , No Exit and Three Other Plays

“These colorful polaroids
Are like magical portals
Leading to places, emotions, and people
Who had slipped into the midst of the forgotten,
Into the odd ether of willful omittance.”
Justin Wetch, Bending The Universe

Cliff  James
“The border of a nationality does not exist ‘in-itself’ in the same way that, say, a mountain, a shell or the moon exists. The border of a nationality is a condition that exists, if it can be said to exist at all, in the mind of the one who passively accepts it as existing. It is a ready-cut cloth, a costume, a fabricated flag, which is used to cover our nothingness.”
Cliff James, Life As A Kite

Cliff  James
“It is a nerve-racking thing to be nothing, to be free, to be responsible for one’s own becoming at each and every moment. It is to be plunged into anxiety, into angst, to suffer the terror of one who stands at the edge of a lifelong precipice. There are no anchors now, no ropes, no gravity to keep us grounded; things fall apart in the stratosphere.”
Cliff James, Life As A Kite

Jacqueline Simon Gunn
“But he knew he had to live his life without being afraid to die. The cage had taught him that.”
Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Flaco the Owl Spreads His Wings

Jacqueline Simon Gunn
“The many hours they’d spent together would never be forgotten, but she wanted more time with him and he with her. Neither knew when they’d see each other again, only that they would. You had to hope and believe—or you had nothing.”
Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Flaco the Owl Spreads His Wings