There's so much going on in Andrei [Bolkonsky]. He's wrangling with these big existential conundrums, and he tries out different routes to… — James Norton Copy Share Image
The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
Vogue began to focus on the body as much as on the clothes, in part because there was little they could dictate… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The argument that won the Brexit campaign is the one that said take back control... which is another way of saying we… — Frans Timmermans Copy Share Image
What is the hope that can give meaning to life? Without some form of hope, the Holy Father argues that life becomes… — Raymond J. de Souza Copy Share Image
This is the personal side of things. When I started going through some of those transitions in my mind, just as a… — Fernando Mastrangelo Copy Share Image
One of the most horrible, yet most important, discoveries of our age has been that, if you really wish to destroy a… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The greatest existential risks over the coming decades or century arise from certain, anticipated technological breakthroughs that we might make in particular,… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
I am absolutely against positive thinking. You will be surprised that if you don't choose, if you remain in a choiceless awareness,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“Filled with existential ennui about your place in the universe? Get over yourself. Yes, you're an inconsequential worm in the grand scope… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
The entrepreneurial struggle is the same at basically every stage in the sense that there's maybe slightly less risk but strategic issues… — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share Image
ather than Eisenstein's fast and hard cutting, I like to hold the shot very still and for longer than we're accustomed to.… — Jenni Olson Copy Share Image
When I talk about the pain and hardship of a scientist's life, I'm speaking of more than existential angst. Galileo's work was… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
First, you hand over some basics-overwhelming joy, existential angst, a giving-in to desire, etc. And then you promise to withstand talking idly… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
“Let us see what words can do. Will you understand me, for a start, if I tell you that I have never… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
This is my number one priority. I've got a lot of things on my plate. But my top priority is to defeat… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
And, what we've allowed ourselves to become - and this is part of Chris' ideas - is complacent, in allowing our lives… — Remi Aubuchon Copy Share Image
The brief relief of seeing other people when I leave my room turns into a desperate need to be alone, and then… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
You can learn technological things, you can learn about specific things, but the real problems that people deal with in any subject,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
In my life, I didn't get into comedy to be - I had no business model. All I wanted to do was,… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
When you are totally defeated you begin again to enjoy the small things around you. Just going to the mountains, not for… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
The point of reading is to inhabit a consciousness that doesn't belong to the reader, immersing yourself in a life that's wholly… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
I don't feel we need to be independent for me to feel confident in my Scottish identity. I think Scotland is pretty… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s not metaphysics. Maybe it’s existential. I’m talking about the individual US citizen’s deep fear, the same basic fear that you… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of being. It is up to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I believed Afghanistan was always going to be hard. It's the fifth poorest country in the world. And when you fly over… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general…is that enterprise that stops our minds… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“In humans (and humans alone), sexuality is embodied in desire--in the primordial desire for life-as-relation. That the sex drive serves the vital… — Christos Yannaras Copy Share Image
“The existential attitude is one of involvement in contrast to a merely theoretical or detached attitude. “Existential” in this sense can be… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
If I wrote about "being [abstraction]" I would be ignoring existential issues (such as death, limited-time, the arbitrary nature of the universe,… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
A true religion will have the humbleness to admit that only a few things are known, much more is unknown, and something… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctrine, namely: that peaceful cohabitation… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“Existential self-love says that you are worthy no matter what. It says that love isn’t based on characteristics. It demands that you… — Stefani Ruper Copy Share Image
“Remember, if you cannot live with yourself, you cannot live with anyone else. The capacity to be alone is the capacity to… — Osho Copy Share Image
“Like everyone smarter and foolish at once, I realized somehow that I was suffering from existential crisis. Days passed, I tried to… — Bhavik Sarkhedi Copy Share Image
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
For every Book of Job, there's a Book of Leviticus, featuring some of the most boring prose ever written. But if you… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
Love can exist only after meditation, not before it. That is a simple existential law. Before meditation - only lust, only sexuality.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
![“There's so much going on in Andrei [Bolkonsky]. He's wrangling with these big existential conundrums, and he tries out different routes to fulfillment. He tries falling in love, that doesn't work. He goes to war and searches for military glory, that doesn't work. He does the quiet life of a…” quote by James Norton](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e2a/james-norton-46478_active_there-s-so-much-going-on-in-andrei-bolko_592982.jpg)
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