Existential Quote by Anonymous

“Modern non-religious man assumes a tragic existence and his existential choice is not without its greatness.”

— Mircea Eliade

“The tragic element in modern man, not ignore the meaning of his life, but it bothers him less and less. ”

— Vaclav Havel

“Nay, are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which has been…

— George Eliot

“...inasmuch as every man takes the sufferings that fall to his share as the greatest.”

— Hermann Hesse

“When a great man dies, nations mourn. When an ordinary man dies, only those who loved him mourn. When an evil man dies, even…

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Man is mortal. This is his fate. Man pretends not to be mortal. That is his sin. Man is a creature of time and…

— Sylvan Barnet

“Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment..”

— Viktor Frankl

“Now he understood that a man never knows for whom he suffers and hopes. He suffers and hopes and toils for people he will…

— Alejo Carpentier

“After all, life was like that for most of us – the small unpleasantnesses rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather…

— Barbara Pym

“The most tragic and deviant behaviour of all is that we live our lives like we will never die, and nonetheless we never live…

— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D

“Modern man’s misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live one that is not mediocre.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“He had that sense, or inward prophecy,-- which a young man had better never have been born than not to have, and a mature…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne