Existential Quotes · Page 5

I thought I was having an existential crisis, but it was nothing. Please don't tailgate: body in trunk.

— Libba Bray

But anyone who thinks themselves genuinely unbiased is bound to be taken in.

— Lu Xun

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.

— Terence McKenna

I think that evolution has had a hand in selecting people who had a sense of doing something beyond themselves.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are…

— Sean Lennon

One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand…

— Rollo May

I can never be an atheist, because God is our celestial hope for our existential worries, our cosmic chance against absurdity!" MMI

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I also think that we [Americans] are operating out of fear in our country. It's not that terrorism is not a threat,…

— Jeremy Scahill

...Erich Fromm wondered why most people did not become insane in the face of the existential contradiction between a symbolic self, that…

— Ernest Becker

You might get run over; you might get hit by lightning. I mean, who knows? Each day, there is a chance you…

— Alex Honnold

Yes, climate change is an existential threat, but there's also kind of this existential issue of why is it that as our…

— Saikat Chakrabarti

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note…

— Albert Camus

I think it's always interesting to make sensational stories where, if these people don't make the right choice, it actually puts marks…

— Daniel Espinosa

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and…

— Rollo May

A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common…

— Vera Nazarian

Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level…

— Arthur Kleinman

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

— Tarun Betala

It is precisely when you are loved a lot that you might realize a second loneliness which is not to be solved…

— Henri Nouwen

People are searching for reasons for believing, searching for answers to the big existential questions of "Why am I here?" and "What…

— Jonathan Morris

With the transcendent or supernatural, they help us contextualize our own lives while we are here on this earth. On a narrative…

— David Lowery

One thing I'm super aware of in my music when I'm writing is: 'Am I overcomplicating this?' I'll write a song about…

— Julien Baker

In no way can it be uttered, as can other things, which one can learn. Rather, from out of a full, co-existential…

— Martin Heidegger

I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because…

— Joss Whedon

It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.

— Viktor E. Frankl

The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.

— John Lanchester

“Because it was my crime to have no one on Earth who cared for me, or loved me.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours...

— Simone de Beauvoir

“They claimed no allegiance to any flag and valued no currency but luck and good contacts.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

“After a lifetime of seeking meaning, I arrive here... where understanding nothing feels like the only true understanding.”

— Monika Ajay Kaul

Without continuous knowledge, man's brain reverts to the existential condition of an animal.

— Mariana Fulger

Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.

— Lee Friedlander

There is nowhere I encounter greater understanding for Israel's existential issues than in the Oval Office.

— Ehud Olmert

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Optimism…is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.

— Charlie Pierce

“The universe, once a source of wonder, now felt like a cruel jester playing with his fragile heart. — Melissa, Ch. 19”

— Jacklyn A. Lo

I really like that homosexuality is a little bit of an existential puzzle.

— Guy Branum

there's no forsaking what you love no existential leap as witnessed here in time and blood a thousand kisses deep

— Leonard Cohen