Existential Quotes · Page 3

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

— Tim Winton

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

— Stephanie Zacharek

Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Few are the birds who fly pass through the human heart”

— Sivan P.L

“We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine.”

— Philip K. Dick

I'm a teleological, existential agnostic.

— Woody Allen

Life should be lived on the edge of life.

— Philippe Petit

“Laughter is the antidote to existential pain”

— S. Spencer Baker

Men who have not known the horror of death are not likely to be awed by it.

— Lu Xun

I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.

— Juliana Hatfield

The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.

— Viktor E. Frankl

Did television execs have souls? Now, that was an existential question and a half.

— J.R. Ward

Israel is a beacon of hope, freedom and liberty surrounded by existential threats.

— Lee Zeldin

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

— Lewis Gordon

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

— Ernest Becker

All I've ever wanted to do was be a great dad, and yet there's no stopping this existential mirror that's held up…

— John Krasinski

Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse - exploration. Exploration of what lies…

— Wole Soyinka

“Stars, spattered out through lifeless night from end to end, like jewels scattered in a dead king's grave, tease, torment my wits…

— John Gardner

It is a cliche, and it is also true, that humor springs from existential pain - from a need to blunt the…

— Gene Weingarten

There was a time when people had the decency to wait until they were approaching 50 to have a mid-life crisis. Now…

— Mark Barrowcliffe

To assume that one's existential task is completed when the individual is brought into right relation with society, that is, when the…

— Merold Westphal

For those who control the levers of power in Washington, and for the global special interests, they partner with these people that…

— Donald Trump

The caliphate will have been dismantled. It will still be a problem, but that has been our focus because that is the…

— Joe Biden

I went to school, and I remember that you had to do these tests to find out what set you're in -…

— Kit Harington

Because I write what I feel the most heavy about. So if there is one day of the week when I feel…

— Phoebe Bridgers

“When I arrived the News was three years old and Ed Lotterman was on the verge of a breakdown. To hear him…

— Hunter S. Thompson

When in the evening we are alone with our most existential thoughts, it is then that we come face to face with…

— Michael Kirby

There've been times when I have existential conversations with myself, and I've thought about leaving and trying to apply my education better.…

— Rashida Jones

In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in…

— Anne Lamott

There's this existential argument that comes in, at some point, when you're over-thinking the songwriting process. There's no guarantee that the more…

— Chris Cornell

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

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

“A shaft of sweetness shoots through me from top to toe when the sun rises; I shoulder my gun in silent exaltation.”

— Knut Hamsun

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

— Roger Ebert

Terrorism is really the only existential threat to America as we know it - as a free country that plays a leading…

— Graham T. Allison

“Modern nonreligious man assumes a tragic existence and his existential choice is not without its greatness.”

— Anonymous