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“The sad truth is that we have to persist in this doomed world that we have created.”

Existentialism Doomed Sad Truth Created Doomed World

Book:2017: Our Summer of Reunions: Braai Seasons with Howl Gang (Howl Gang Legend)

Source: 2017: Our Summer of Reunions: Braai Seasons with Howl Gang (Howl Gang Legend)

“We burry ourselves into work, flee into consumerism, religion or other things to pass time. To make sure we forget our own mortality and the one of our loved ones, instead of embracing it.”

Religion Work Morality Immortality Existentialism Distraction Consumerism Embrace Death Embrace Mortality

Book:2017: Our Summer of Reunions: Braai Seasons with Howl Gang (Howl Gang Legend)

Source: 2017: Our Summer of Reunions: Braai Seasons with Howl Gang (Howl Gang Legend)

“Fate is usually not kind to most of us here on this little planet.” Says Alan to me. “Indeed… but remember suffering is a prerequisite of living life. Whether you are miserable about the fact that you suffer is your own choice.” “It’s an easy way out isn’t it? Being miserable about your own suffering.” “It’s also ignorant about the fact that everyone suffers too. We all pay a price for our consciousness.”

Kind Suffering Consciousness Fate Miserable Existentialism Living Life Prerequisite

Book:2017: Our Summer of Reunions: Braai Seasons with Howl Gang (Howl Gang Legend)

Source: 2017: Our Summer of Reunions: Braai Seasons with Howl Gang (Howl Gang Legend)

“But as long as we all practice kindness wherever we go and don’t stop to wonder at this a so marvellous and stunning world our very existence won’t have been wasted. Not in the slightest! So let’s have a lovely drink, hug each other and cry at the sight of the beautiful sunset that we are about to witness! And then go home, get some sleep and do it all over again!”

Kindness Cry Witness Existentialism Sunset Hug Beauty Of Life

Book:2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering

Source: 2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering

“And so, we continue living, going insane, trying to experience whatever ecstasy one can before finally biting the dust.”

Living Insane Existentialism Living Life To The Fullest Ecstasy Of Life Expirience Biting The Dust

Book:2017: Our Summer of Reunions: Braai Seasons with Howl Gang (Howl Gang Legend)

Source: 2017: Our Summer of Reunions: Braai Seasons with Howl Gang (Howl Gang Legend)

“Melancholy seems to be running strong among us right now, bypassing our safeguards and infiltrate our well guarded fortresses, our most sacred places, our hearts and minds.”

Past Existentialism Melancholy Forgetting Sacred Places Fortress Hearts And Minds

Book:Peruvian Nights

Source: Peruvian Nights

“A man stares at himself in the mirror and peels away all the layers. But the person he sees doesn't feels like someone he knows. He feels like he is looking at a total stranger.”

Stranger Existentialism Layers Mirror Knowing Oneself Existential Crisis Personalities Wearing A Mask Masking

Book:Peruvian Nights

Source: Peruvian Nights

“Another abyss that we have cross, another abyss that we have to stare into in the hope it won't stare back to us.”

Hope Existentialism Hiking Abyss Peru Existential Crisis Inca Path Staring Into The Abyss

Book:Peruvian Nights

Source: Peruvian Nights

“We all have to die one day, we might as well die with some obscure meaning attached to it.”

Death Meaning Existentialism Decay Die Existential Crisis Existential Meaning In Life Moment Passing In Time Obscure Meaning

Book:Peruvian Nights

Source: Peruvian Nights

“Death is what gives our lives urgency, an awareness that time isn't infinite.”

Death Time Awareness Infinite Existentialism Urgency Existential Crisis

Book:Peruvian Nights

Source: Peruvian Nights

“But we are always running out of time. There is never enough time. That is the sad predicament of life: To never have enough time. To start dying the second you are born…”

Time Dying Existentialism Enough Time Running Out Of Time

Book:2017: Our Summer of Reunions: Braai Seasons with Howl Gang (Howl Gang Legend)

Source: 2017: Our Summer of Reunions: Braai Seasons with Howl Gang (Howl Gang Legend)

“Long ago I thought I knew myself, now my knowledge about myself is nothing but a empty shell…”

Knowledge Existentialism Long Ago Knowing Oneself Existential Crisis Doubting Yourself Emtpy Shell

Book:Peruvian Nights

Source: Peruvian Nights

“Our future is ahead of us, it will come steamrolling at us, it is totally out of our control. However, it is yet up to us to define and shape it after our own vision. Or at least try dying!”

Future Philosophical Existentialism Philosophy Quotes Out Of Control Shape Your Future Steamrolling Try Dying

Book:2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering

Source: 2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering

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