Existential Thought Quotes

I've always been somebody who's acutely aware of my mortality.

You know, I think I am faintly spiritual.

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.

As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realize how insignificant they are.

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'

Death has a way of making us all stop and think about life.

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism.

One day, I found this book at a used bookstore with 'Satanic Bible' written on the cover, and I thought maybe I should read it and see what it is. I thought it was like a religion, but then I read the book, and what was in it was pure life philosophy - and it was a life philosophy that described how I felt at that point.

Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.

From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be alive.

Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity.

Existentialist philosophy recognizes the existence of the individual as the real purpose of human life. The recognition is basically atheistic and it encourages the individual to free himself from the impositions of custom, governmental authority, economic pressures, and cultural inhibitions.

Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what were doing;but it become a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of our life.

I'll go out at night and look up at the stars and think, 'How ridiculously inconsequential I am in the scheme of things.'

And I, who have never thought in terms of a life, think to myself that I could make a life out of this.

When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.

Why should people be expected to think about the meaning of life merely because they happen to be ill? That is just the time when there is no time to think about such things, because the body is so greedy for attention.

The first thing I think of when I wake up is how close I am to death. But then it gets better during the day.

Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. There is a line which people cross that turns it into some magical, mystical realm, for which I dont claim responsibility and dont hold any great truck with.

Life is a dream, realise it.

I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination.