Existential Quotes · Page 2

'Ikiru' is existential but with a lot of tenderness.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.

— Lu Xun

“Today is the first day of the rest of your existential crisis.”

— John McGill

“We co-existed in peaceful detachment”

— Tsitsi Dangarembga

Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.

— Ernest Becker

“There’s real evil, Mr Honey. Not that existential crap, either.”

— Laird Barron

I could not blot out hope, for hope belongs to the future.

— Lu Xun

Humour's the pay-off for all that existential horror.

— Tim Winton

I'm really interested in how people face existential crises and either overcome them or don't, and in how the human psyche responds.

— Doug Stanton

The blues is also existential and offers a sense of mature reflection that enabled it to be the leitmotif of modern life.

— Lewis Gordon

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Climate change poses an existential threat to the planet that is no less dire than that posed by North Korea's nuclear ambitions.

— Joseph Stiglitz

the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith

— Ernest Becker

Right after 'Friday Night Lights' ended, I was in sort of an existential crisis.

— Jesse Plemons

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

— Jonathan Franzen

I know in an existential sense that life can change on a dime ... something has instantly and inexorably changed in American life.

— John Lahr

Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff…

— Rick Yancey

Sometimes when I perform, and it's obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me…

— Mitski

So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all…

— Bob Inglis

Only something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if 'I'm good.' You don't find oak trees having existential crisis.…

— Adyashanti

There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this…

— J. C. Chandor

Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we…

— Ban Ki-moon

I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread,…

— Norman Mailer

“The existential hero strives for authenticity even when it is costly, lives meaningfully in the midst of a banal, absurd world, and…

— Jason Dias

“Money Is an Energy" Everybody is already someone else An existential tag line Money is current I would like to not live…

— Justin Marks

I'm pretty critical, but I'm also pretty good at letting go once it's done. There's this existential argument that comes in, at…

— Chris Cornell

The citizens of a city are not guilty of the crimes committed in their city; but they are guilty as participants in…

— Paul Tillich

Philosophy would do well to desist from issuing any further injunctions about the need to re-establish the meaningfulness of existence, the purposefulness…

— Ray Brassier

“We believe because it gives us faith. It gives us the willingness to go through our day, to keep the existentialist threat…

— Tarun Betala

I've changed over my writing life. If I can generalize, I would say that the more recent poems - believe it or…

— Gerald Stern

To emotionally accept impending disaster, to attain the gut-level understanding that the power elite will not respond rationally to the devastation of…

— Chris Hedges

That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into…

— Rollo May

“That happens in hotel rooms, people have bad dreams.”

— Elizabeth Strout

"Batman Begins" leaks existential phoniness from the first frame.

— Stephanie Zacharek

To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair.

— Jason Silva

“God may save all, but human rescue is only for a few.”

— Saul Bellow

“Dying is something I have to do alone.”

— Amanda Peters

I am gripped by an existential panic.

— Bret Easton Ellis

Be wary of too much calm, particularly in your mid-fifties.

— Ian Mcewan

The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.

— Rollo May