Quotes about Existential

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.

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?