“At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilization, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how…”— Greta Thunberg, ft.com
“My message to the young people of the world is that right now we are facing an existential crisis, I mean, the climate and ecological crisis, and it will have a massive impact on our lives in the future, but also now, especially in vulnerable communities. And I think that we should wake up, and we s…”— Greta Thunberg, democracynow.org
“This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be standing here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to me for hope? How dare you! You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Enti…”— Greta Thunberg, theguardian.com
“We have not treated this crisis as a crisis; we see it as another problem that needs to be fixed. But it is so much more than that. It’s an existential crisis, more important than anything else.”— Greta Thunberg, plantbasednews.org
“He's having an existential crisis. It's a sort of anguish people go through when they contemplate the silent indifference of our empty universe.”— Michael Schur, Chidi Anagonye, William Jackson Harper, imdb.com
“You can’t change anything because that would require any of it meaning something.”— Katie Mather, thebelladonnacomedy.com
“Skye Miller [to Tony]: He's got existential crisis written on his forehead. Clay Jensen: I do not. Skye Miller: There's some truth you don't want to face. Clay Jensen: Why did you say that? Skye Miller: I see the future.”— Diana Son, Clay Jensen, Dylan Minnette, imdb.com
“I can see that. He's got existential crisis written all over his forehead.”— Diana Son, Skye Miller, Sosie Bacon, imdb.com
“I wouldn't know how to see whatever I saw: the explanation of an enigma is the mere repetition of the enigma. What are you? and the answer is: You are. What do you exist? and the answer is: what you exist.”— Clarice Lispector, amazon.com
“I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye.”— Lady Bird Johnson, izquotes.com
“I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“Why must we pass from the world like locusts, and our life is like a vapor?”— Ezra, quod.lib.umich.edu
“we’re literally floating on a tiny planet in fucking space why are we surrounded by hatred and misery. why can’t everyone just calm the fuck down and lay on some grass. the sun is a GIANT BURNING ORB why does money exist. fuck everything”— theredpelican, theredpelican.tumblr.com
“And one day, you’ll wake up and realize that you are too big for your own skin. Molt. Don’t be afraid.”— Shinji Moon, amazon.com
“She would not say of any one in the world that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged. She sliced like a knife through everything; at the same time was outside, looking on.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“Ah, who will save me from existing? It’s neither death nor life that I want.”— Fernando Pessoa, amazon.com
“What if humans weren’t supposed to happen. What if everything can kill us because the Earth is trying to kill us?... What if we were never supposed to exist at all and the world is just trying to correct its biggest mistake?”— dogglefoxkvk, dogglefoxkvk.tumblr.com
“do you ever realize how terrifying the concept of the soul is? i'm trapped inside a dying body on a dying planet in a dying universe with no way out but death. i feel really claustrophobic right now.”— exacerbatedtumor, exacerbatedtumor.tumblr.com