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11 Questions To Trigger Your Existential Crisis

Štefan Štefančík

11 Questions To Trigger Your Existential Crisis

What is the meaning of all this?

You go talk to kindergartners or first-grade kids, you find a class full of science enthusiasts. They ask deep questions. They ask, "What is a dream, why do we have toes, why is the moon round, what is the birthday of the world, why is grass green?"

These are profound, important questions. They just bubble right out of them.

You go talk to 12th graders and there's none of that. They've become incurious. Something terrible has happened between kindergarten and 12th grade.

— Carl Sagan, Cosmos: Carl Sagan

Children Youth Curiosity Growing Pains Existential Crisis

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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close

Existential Crisis The World

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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, via Tumblr

Existential Crisis

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I just keep losing. I mean, some people just supposed to lose? For balance in the universe? I mean, like, are there just some people on Earth who supposed to be here just to make it easier for the winners?

— Earn Marks, Atlanta

Existential Crisis The Universe Loser Pessimist

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Why do we crave love so much, even to the point that we would die for it?

— Helen Fisher, The brain in love

Love Existential Crisis

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What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.

— Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

Life Existential Crisis Perspective

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I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want.
And why do I want?

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath

Existential Crisis

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ain’t we all just trying to be
some type of sanctuary for someone?
for every year we are not destroyed
do they not remind us what a miracle
it is to have lasted this long?

— Clint Smith, what the cathedral said to the black boy

Existential Crisis BLM Survival Sanctuary Poetry

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I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question.

— Harun Yahya, Author of "The Evolution Deceit"

Existentialism Birds Earth Lust For Life Adventure

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Ah, who will save me from existing? It’s neither death nor life that I want.

— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Existential Crisis

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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, via Tumblr

Soul Existential Crisis Death Tumblr

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