We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
The universe is biased toward consciousness because the universe wants to be noticed. It's a way into existential hope that doesn't have… — John Green Copy Share Image
I think for a woman, getting older can help, through personal experience, although of course older women are then rendered invisible in… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I get this weird, existential crisis when I'm looking through Instagram - and then I'll realize we work in entertainment. We know… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
The problems of a period are the existential crises of what can be but hasn't yet been resolved; and regardless of how… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
There should be no doubt why Israel, our best friend and greatest ally in the Middle East, has determined that Iran poses… — Lois Frankel Copy Share Image
Therefore, it is we who are responsible for much of the evil in the world; and we are each morally required to… — Stephen A. Diamond Copy Share Image
Our approach to existential risks cannot be one of trial-and-error. There is no opportunity to learn from errors. The reactive approach -… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“I want to end my life like a human being: in Intensive Care, high on morphine, surrounded by cripplingly expensive doctors and… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
“If we are able to convey ‘meaning’ to things and to actions, we may dominate part of the obscure world of ignorance.… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal who does not feel at home in nature, who can feel evicted from paradise, the only animal… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The Internet is really our meeting place. We have this amazing listserv. Every time I log onto it I feel a sense… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“There was something heartbreakingly beautiful about the lights of distant ships, I thought. It was something that touched both on human achievement… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“He talked about luck and fate and numbers coming up, yet he never ventured a nickel at the casinos because he knew… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“I am standing puzzled, unable to decide whether the veil is really being lifted, or lowered more firmly in place; whether I… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I definitely have that bug; I'd really like to do some auteur, existential pieces, darker films, something that's really reflective of life.… — Noah Centineo Copy Share Image
For my generation, coming of age at the height of the Cold War, fear of nuclear winter seemed the leading existential threat… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
True, we must dare look things in the face before we dare think, speak, act, or assume responsibility. If we dare not… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
About every year or two, there is a moment of truth where there's some new development in the marketplace, some new technology,… — Jeremy Stoppelman Copy Share Image
In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life.… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
I brought my first fall/winter line to New York, and it was confiscated by U.S. Customs. They asked, 'What is the value… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
Protecting America and our allies from the existential threat of a nuclear-armed Iran is paramount, and I remain committed to ensuring Iran's… — Katie Britt Copy Share Image
Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann represent an existential threat to the Democratic Party the way that twenty years ago Clarence Thomas as… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
Error ... is less an intellectual problem than an existential one - a crisis not in what we know, but in who… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
“It seems to us that in its most basic definition, existential despair is the painful discrepancy between what is and what should… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Cinema d'auteur, cinema about people, about emotions. About la difficulté d'être, the difficulty of being, existential problems. That's what the nouvelle vague… — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
'Atomic Blonde' is about the characters' bigger existential crisis and their world. It's not so much the conceit of the spy game;… — David Leitch Copy Share Image
“These colorful polaroids Are like magical portals Leading to places, emotions, and people Who had slipped into the midst of the forgotten,… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
One doesn't do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
Israel defined its God and its relation to that God in existential, relational terms. They did not, until quite late, approach the… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
The human condition is endlessly fascinating to me, and the existential horrors of life are what drive our imaginations and theater in… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
My films require that the spectator ask the big existential questions. If you're not interested of turning inwards for answers, my films… — Lisa Langseth Copy Share Image
“It’s maybe impossible to escape (your own head), but I guess the secret is the prison cell just gets bigger and bigger… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I may look like an American WASPy doctor or lawyer, but I feel just like Woody Allen. Don't cast me for my… — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
