Abnegation Quote by Emily Apter

“A form of consciousness beyond the veils of discursive thought, a space forever present for those who seek it, not in some far-off wilderness,…

— Ian Baker

“In one timeless instant a complex impression, not of knowledge but of feeling, penetrated her awareness like an indelible dream. An imprint of evil…

— Marcha A. Fox

“When the mind rises punned in the flames of self-realization, distance between human and human disappears as if it never existed in the first…

— Abhijit Naskar

... the estranged self, hidden with its inexhaustible potential, lies undiscovered by many people who die without even knowing that it exists.

— Kazuo Chiba

“Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with other people…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

We isolate with every step, brick our exits, and seek deeper inside our soul for the boundary of existentialism, the essence...

— Mariana Fulger

“Beneath outer consciousness, two other beings, anonymous, impersonal, without labels, had met and recognized each other and clasped hands.”

— Christopher Isherwood

“The existential realm is, from the standpoint of propositional structure, a raging chaos.”

— Murray Krieger

“... all that we see is but the reflex of a power that endures, untouched by the pain... a transcendent anonymity regarding itself in…

— Joseph Campbell

“No one would take me just as I was, no one loved me; I shall love myself enough, I thought, to make up for…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Human consciousness created objective existence and meaning, and man found his indispensable place in the great process of being.”

— Anthony Stevens

“That the life of man is but a dream, many a man has surmised heretofore; and I, too, am everywhere pursued by this feeling.…

— Anonymous