Existential Fact Quotes

We're just animals, creatures smart enough and unlucky enough to have figured out we're alive, and we're going to die without ever knowing any purpose. We can pretend all we want and we can wish all we want, but that basic existential fact remains—we can't know.

Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.

Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth.

I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.

Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is.

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.

The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.

If you ask "Should we be in space?" you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space.

What I'm talking about is actually is the Mystery of Being as existential fact. That there is something that haunts this world that can take apart and reduce every single one of us to a mixture of terror and ecstasy, fear and trembling. It is not an idea, that's the primary thing to bear in mind. It's an experience.