Existential State Quotes

In hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them.

One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future.

Only man can stop being fully man. He can ascend above all degres of universal existence and by the same token fall below the level of the basest of creatures.

Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.

Everything that occupies space has form. The formless can only be infinite.

She wasn't happy, but then she wasn't unhappy. She wasn't anything. But I don't believe anyone is a nothing. There has to be something inside, if only to keep the skin from collapsing. This vacant eye, listless hand, this damask cheek dusted like a doughnut with plastic powder, had to have a memory or a dream.

I am absolutely against positive thinking. You will be surprised that if you don't choose, if you remain in a choiceless awareness, your life will start expressing something which is beyond both positive and negative, which is higher than both. So you are not going to be a loser. It is not going to be negative, it is not going to be positive, it is going to be existential.