Theodor Adorno Quotes on Existential
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'But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.'
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'In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.'
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'In the clock's over-loud ticking we hear the mockery of light-years for the span of our existence.'
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'Mind arose out of existence, as an organ for keeping alive. In reflecting existence, however, it becomes at the same time something else. The existent negates itself as thought upon itself. Such negation is mind's element.'
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'Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.'