…the existential paradox we all experience; we feel that we are immortal, yet we know that we will die.
– Calvin Trillin
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- No man can be immortal by dying! There is only one way to be immortal: Not to die! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- To die famous is the goal of the immortal. To die young is the goal of the healthy. To die memorably is the goal of the survivor. – Bauvard
- A great paradox which should God make us understand, we will weep, laugh, wonder and ponder is the paradox of human ignorance – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- the paradox of human ignorance is the most intriguing paradox of nature – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Moments of love and compassion are the only immortal moments in human being’s life! We humans are mortals with immortal moments! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- How can the creation challenge and control the Creator? Oh mortal man, know that there is an immortal God with an immortal power! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- (…) a director should tell a story that is close to his own existential experience. – Andrzej Wajda
- Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel. – PD James
- When I create a masterpiece I feel alive! When my creation is revered I feel immortal. – Euphoria Godsent
- …the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy. – GK Chesterton
- Dune was a world of paradox now-”a world under siege, yet the center of power. To come under siege, he decided, was the inevitable fate of power. – Frank Herbert
- The great paradox of life is that to fully live, we must let a piece of ourselves die. – Darren Main
- -‹Everything that makes you, you, is a biologically existential expression of your entire brain. – Abhijit Naskar
- Polygamy is a luxury of the cave-people, and monogamy is an existential responsibility of the civilized society. – Abhijit Naskar
- You can’t escape the existential suffering of life as long as you are living. So get used to it. – Debasish Mridha
- A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease. – Viktor E Frankl
- …the oppressor is truly repressed. Their poverty is existential, often surrounded by an abundance of material goods. (Leonardo Boff, p. 179) – Mev Puleo
- Other times, when existential crisis mode kicked in, I flirted with the idea of giving up and drifting whichever way gravity and wind moved me. – SA Tawks
- There’s real evil, Mr Honey. Not that existential crap, either. – Laird Barron
- I am an existential libertarian humanist ????sucker. Now, what else do you want to know? – Remesh R
- Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death. – RD Laing
- You’re an immortal, divine being. A little god, and yet, you toil like a slave. Isn’t that hilarious? – Stefan Emunds
- If you like to be immortal, live for others and die for others. – Debasish Mridha
- -“We are all dying-“ she told me. -“Even something of the immortal will die-“-œWhat?--“Meaning-“ – Heather Heffner
- It is better to die honorably and render yourself immortal than live to old age and fade to dust. – Livia Blackburne
- I am an immortal Experiencer. Does that changed my life,no but it changed the way I Experience life. – Tarn dipp
- The Paradox of Change: People can only change when they feel accepted as they are now. Dr. Arnold Beisser Pg 220 – John Kuypers
- Each of us is the best we can be when we are fully present, focused yet relaxed, curious yet non-judgmental, committed yet flexible. – John Kuypers
- The Master is cordial yet stern, awe-inspiring yet not fierce and respectful yet at ease. – Confucius
- Leaders find something to die for, not something to live on. If you haven’t found something to die for yet, you can’t lead. – Israelmore Ayivor
- You are dead, you know!- he screeched delightedly, -œCome on Miss Wright! Die! Die! DIE! – William Axtell
- Make people feel great when they feel small. Make them feel responsible when they feel great. – Alin Sav
- The music video will die when we all go blind, and music will never die, because even when you can’t hear it, you can feel it. – Maggie Stiefvater
- Would it be better to feel afraid all the time or to feel nothing at all? She hadn’t decided yet. – Anna Snoekstra
- Yet he understood that there are some things you feel and others that you choose to feel, and that the choice doesn’t make the feeling less valid. – Marie Rutkoski
- Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- I am turned into a dream. I feel nothing, or I don’t know what I feel. Yet it seems to me I am happy. – DH Lawrence