Existential Crisis Quotes

“Embrace the void and have the courage to exist.”
― Dan Howell

“I don’t know who I am, and who I’m not, I don’t know who I’m supposed to be, and I miss who I was; I miss it every day, Kate, but there’s no place for that August anymore. No place for the version of me who wanted to go to school, and have a life, and feel human, because this world doesn’t need that August. It needs someone else.”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“I live to enjoy life by the littlest things, feeling the grass between my toes, breathing fresh air, watching the wind sway the trees, enjoying the company of loved ones, a deep conversation, getting lost in a good book, going for a walk in nature, watching my kids grow up. Just the feeling itself of being alive, the absolute amazing fact that we are here right now, breathing, thinking, doing.”
― Marigold Wellington

“There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“nu știu de ce
timpul
se plimbă azi
prin fața noastră
blând și nisipos
ca femeile poeților.
în toate cântecele mă vrea.
poate tu mă vrei primi o clipă
în Andaluzia ta
în care astăzi
n-a murit nimeni.”
― Monica Laura Rapeanu, Orbul de la Cină

“I do the splits perfectly in PE. I lose half a pound in two days. I get the spinach and pig-meat frittata from the lo-carb section for lunch. And no-one else knows. I mentally construct a MyFace status, polishing the memories carefully until they shine. The need to record my life is as fundamental as my need to breathe. Without MyFace, I'm floating. I have nothing to anchor me down, to prove I exist.”
― Louise O'Neill

“Still, she really did seem to be absurdly into this. It was almost existentially unsettling, that two people in such close physical proximity could be experiencing the same moment so differently.”
― Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories

“Are you broken? Good. Now fall apart completely. You will realize that what has fallen apart is not you. It's just a thin external coating that hides your pure, eternal and ever-shining being.”
― Shunya

“Long ago I thought I knew myself, now my knowledge about myself is nothing but a empty shell…”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“I couldn't bear being this suburban mom who was alternating between screaming at her kids and being the heartfelt, privileged witness to their joy. But the people around us - the haranguing mothers and sexless fathers - I kept trying to find ways that I was better than these people, but all I kept landing on was the fact that the common denominator was me.”
― Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble

“I am not alone. Existing in this melancholic world causes numerous individuals to feel remorseful and even harbor resentment. Contemplating the world fills me with melancholy. I sense a profound disconnection from the world. Feeling completely drained by my internal and external despair and indifference. I find myself filled with regret and eagerly await the conclusion. I believe my overwhelming anxiety has transformed into anhedonia and depression. Feelings of emptiness and not fitting in are common to all people. Feeling like an outsider hinders connection with others. Once quite the extrovert. I have always experienced a deep sense of disconnection, but at this stage of my life, numerous things have gone awry, making it almost unbearable.”
― Jonathan Harnisch

“God has drawn a curtain between myself and heaven and there is no parting it.”
― Brian Evenson, The Open Curtain

“At times I want to scream, scream at this illogical shit, at this wanton terror! Every comedy seems to end as a bad joke, no actually it ends as a horror story! An illogical one at that!”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“A man stares at himself in the mirror and peels away all the layers. But the person he sees doesn't feels like someone he knows. He feels like he is looking at a total stranger.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“There is no time in what you are going through. Your suffering is a place, and you don't know whether you can ever leave this place. You don't even have enough hope to wish that it be over faster. Faster doesn't exist, any more than time itself. You are not alive enough to measure it. You live in a present of incessant pain.”
― Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

“I spend long hours contemplating my existence and the meaning of this isolation. The thoughts are dark and heavy, often leading me down spirals of despair.”
― Rove Monteux, Living in a Bunker: A diary of the life in a bunker

“He thought about the loss of humanity that was eating away at the world and the loss of the connection to the self that ate away at the consciousness which animated all into being. He thought about how the collective psyche was teetering on that knife’s edge between a desperation to live and a desperation to die. And here he was at the cusp of it himself.”
― Casey Fisher, The Subtle Cause

“There was only that bobbing bundle of stringy, dirty-blonde hair fading into a sea of other heads bobbing and faces coming and going, of storylines intersecting and entwining and then fraying only to become irretrievably lost in the interminable wave-pattern of curiosities fleeting and nothingness everlasting.”
― Casey Fisher, The Subtle Cause

“The Edge of Reason by Stewart Stafford

I do not want to die or take my own life,
I cling to the outside of skyscraper metal,
Thick, choking smoke rakes my shoulder,
Scorching flames lash my back and legs.

I showered, dressed and went to work,
I arrived early, said hello, found my desk,
Then the building shifted, smiles faded,
Everything changed, and here we are.

God, please take me quickly, I beg you,
Bless my loved ones, I hope they understand,
A Rorschach test for shocked rubberneckers,
I let the air pressure suck me out and drop.

The initial relief of vacating impossibility,
Turns to violent buffeting in wind currents,
Clothes ripped off as I spin, falling faster,
Crowds point, the ground rushes towards me.

© 2024, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“The superior man, one who would follow the Iron Way, he must have struggle, he must have a goal, an impossible goal to fight for, and die for if needed. This is what he craves, not the green pasture of the cows.”
― Toby R. Beeny, The Iron Way: A Narrative of Crisis

“Even in the most breathtaking moments, the weight of my existence remains unbearable. Technology offers no salvation—I despise it. If any refuge is left in this unraveling mind, it lies in the fleeting embrace of desire, the numb surrender of oblivion, or perhaps nothing at all. And yet, love lingers, haunting and relentless, even in the depths of regret.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

“The world is broken and I don't know how to fix it.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Borne

“I’m history’s last fucking joke—burned out in a senior center doing Namaste Yoga while God shows up in a saltine cracker, calls me a coward, and offers me a cigarette. That’s it. That’s the punchline. So fuck your hope, and fuck your healing. I’m already holy. I’m already gone.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Glad You're Not Me

“Where’s the form to request a refund for Earth?
Because, honestly… this incarnation is costing me everything.”
― Phoenix Moon, Emotional Roller Coaster: Confessions of a soul reborn from the ashes

“Anyone who romanticizes adulthood
needs to be studied by NASA.

Because only someone in orbit
could look at this mess
and call it 'normal.”
― Phoenix Moon, Emotional Roller Coaster: Confessions of a soul reborn from the ashes

“Le duele pensar que quizá lo trágico de un sueño no es que pueda concretarse. Es el despertar. Porque una vez que se le tomó el gusto, la vida será intolerable si no vuelve a repetirse. Y uno será más desgraciado que antes, cuando ignoraba cómo era esa felicidad.”
― Guillermo Saccomanno, El oficinista

“do nada, sim, viemos, foi pelo não ser que começámos, e mortos, quando o estivermos, seremos dispersos, sem consciência, mas existindo.”
― José Saramago, The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

“You are not your addiction.”
― Simple Man, 20 Years Of Inner War: How porn defeated my porn addiction

“Life is null and void.”
― Deyth Banger, Dead Equation

“Apakah sudah nasibku untuk menjadi lain daripada apa yang telah disuratkan nasib? Tidak menjadi perempuan (menurut pengertian kata ini yang diterima orang) dan tidak menjadi dokter (menurut gelarku dari sekolah kedokteran)? Atau memang sudah nasibku untuk menjadi orang sebelum menjadi perempuan, menjadi seorang seniman sebelum menjadi seorang dokter?”
― Nawal El Saadawi, موت معالي الوزير سابقاً