Questioning Life Quotes

“Animal banished from life, man's condition is tragic, for he no longer finds fulfillment in life's simple values. For animals, life is all there is; for man, life is a question mark. An irreversible question mark, for man has never found, nor will ever find, any answers. Life not only has no meaning; it can never have one.”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

“God, I ask you, is non-resistance a sin?”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“What happens when you don't know the truth but you can't believe the lies, when you can't find a way--through fact or fiction--to give meaning to your own existence? Without a narrative for your own life, do you ever really exist at all?”
― Maria Goodin, From the Kitchen of Half Truth

“Which of my beliefs are of my own creation and which were programmed into me?”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life

“Just because you were born into something doesn't mean that it's right and it doesn't mean that it's true. The world's greatest men and women have always been those who questioned everything that ever was presented to them as truth.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“maybe life is a cobweb,
not an organizational chart.”
― Kelli Russell Agodon, Dialogues with Rising Tides

“She sat there, a wild heart on a chair with gin lips and nightlife eyes. The Gatsby Girl. Longing for more in the shallowness of it all.”
― Marie-Kristin Hofmann, Remember the wild girl

“How am I consciously adding more chaos to my daily life through my good intentions?”
― H.L. Balcomb, Cinderella In Focus: "Finding hope when you're feeling a sense of hopelessness!"

“How can I ever do anything extraordinary with such a mundane existence?”
― Soulla Christodoulou, Alexander and Maria

“Summer hadn't brought me what I wanted. I didn't think winter would do me any better”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Is it possible the earth is alive and thinks and feels?”
― Shia Kuren, 888 Questions for Couples: Questions of the heart for the heart.

“What inspires you?”
― Shia Kuren, 888 Questions for Couples: Questions of the heart for the heart.

“Who among us, looking back down the path of no return, can say they followed it in the right way?”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“A sudden sense of déjà vu, a feeling of being secretly observed, a recurring dream that seems eerily factual. What if these aren’t the misfirings of our own warped brains, random occurrences with no deeper meaning? What if they’re actually subtle hints, whispers from the multiverse urging us to question our reality?”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality