The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have. — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
When something is presented as an existential threat, it is very easy to scare the Israelis. — Ronen Bergman Copy Share Image
Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel. — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
“Modern non-religious man assumes a tragic existence and his existential choice is not without its greatness.” — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
Democrats and Republicans love Israel and all of us care about the existential threat to Israel from Iran. — Jane Harman Copy Share Image
“A life with someone you can say good-bye to is a good life, especially when it hurts so much to say it… — Kafka Asagiri Copy Share Image
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“To be or not to be. God's gift to animals is they don't get a choice.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When I first heard the word existential, I didn't know what it meant. But then I found out that no one knows… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
This accumulated debt at all levels of our society poses an immediate existential threat to America. Now unlike the manufactured crises of… — Steve Bannon Copy Share Image
What makes us most human is not whether we are or are not biologically driven and determined beings; but, rather, how we… — Stephen A. Diamond Copy Share Image
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
There's existential fears I have - losing passion and creativity and just kind of floating through life. When I feel a little… — Jimmy Chin Copy Share Image
There's very few directors I think in this industry that would pitch to a studio that they wanted to do a multi-layered… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
You're faced with creation, you're faced with something very mysterious and very mystical, whether it's looking at the ocean or being alone… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
The world is changing from day to day; it is high time for our writers to take off their masks, look frankly,… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
“We can combat existential anguish – the unbearable lightness of our being – in a variety of ways. We can choose to… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The citizens of a city are not guilty of the crimes committed in their city; but they are guilty as participants in… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“We need to be virtually bludgeoned into detachment from our daily lives, our habits and mental laziness, which conceal from us the… — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
I think Bergman's films have eternal relevance, because they deal with the difficulty of personal relationships and lack of communication between people… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all. — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak - that gives it an existential emphasis. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root]. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes. — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“(...) a director should tell a story that is close to his own existential experience.” — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
“Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity.” — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth. — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst. — Meg Ryan Copy Share Image
I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst. — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image