Existantialism Quotes

“Let’s say -for the sake of the argument-, whatever you do, doesn’t matter in the great scheme of things. But the thing is we don’t live in the great scheme of things. We live only in a part of it. So, even if it doesn’t matter in the great scheme of things, it doesn’t matter that it doesn’t matter.”
― Cave Man, Modern Human's Handbook

“Sometimes we humans are like brainless chickens, we run around aimlessly and to no avail, we seem to be looking for something that we don't even know what it is, some sort of missing piece, which isn't even there. Why don't most of us realise that life isn't about looking for the missing piece, but actually to learn live with the fact that one might never find it and still have a happy and fulfilled life nonetheless?”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“Like a moth is drawn to the light we are drawn to melancholy, we succumb to it.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“「意識」是作為人的存在中，我們與外在世界關係退無可退的起點。”
― 楊照, 忠於自己靈魂的人: 卡繆與異鄉人

“Would you rather be a candle or a lamp? Choose the lamp! Would you rather be a shark or a cat? Choose the shark, it can live for 500 years! Turtle or dog? Choose the turtle! Those who live long have long stories! Existence is above all! Be a whale, live for 200 years, be a glass sponge, live for 10,000 years, be a Turritopsis dohrni, achieve biological immortality, and your story will be longer than anyone else!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“You are just a being that is aware. Is this a blessing or a curse?”
― K. Archura

“The deepest horror of the Psycho-Cosmocide is not the conquest of land or a people. Conquest has always been a part of history. Nor is it that a people are exploited, displaced, assimilated or governed by external powers. The deepest horror begins when the instruments of conquest become internalised by the conquered themselves. This occurs when foreign realities become familiar, when imposed meanings become self-evident truths, when survival becomes participation and when adaptation becomes reproduction. At that point, the coloniser no longer stands outside the walls. The walls themselves start to rebuild the labyrinth. The gatekeepers become its guardians. The prisoners decorate their cells. The language forgets itself. The library burns its own books. The forest grows the handle of the axe. The tragedy of West Papua and many other colonised Cosmobian peoples is therefore not just a story of external domination. It is also a story of how domination learns to speak with the voice of the dominated, think with their thoughts, dream with their dreams and reproduce itself through their love for their children. Psycho-Cosmocide is victorious when a people continue to walk, work, study, vote, develop, consume and progress while the world that once made them has disappeared. At that point, the labyrinth no longer requires walls because it has been rebuilt inside the colonised minds themselves.”
― Yamin Kogoya, PAPUAN TRAGEDY: 300 Warnings From The Edge Of Extinction