Existential Anxiety Quotes

It's not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It's like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death's terror. We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

We're afraid to live, because we're afraid of dying.

I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.

Once people start to think they've wasted parts of their life, or they're wasting their life as they speak, that means there's going to be great dramatic and comedic tension.

The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security. On the other hand, the more we are forced to admit that we actually live in the real world, the more we feel ignorant, uncertain, and insecure about everything.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Death is not the enemy; living in constant fear of it is.

You yourself don't have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.

I don't want to die. Please don't let me die.

I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death

Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.

The existence of other people is essentially awkward.

People still have existential anxiety. It just may not be expressed in Hebraic idiom.

Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.

Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?

A small fact: You are going to die....does this worry you?

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.

The dread of futility has been my life-long plague.

The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.

That which most concerns and worries you - your survival - is the only certainty you have.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.