“To be or not to be. God's gift to animals is they don't get a choice.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What is inside of you besides this human stuff of veins and bones and existential longing?” — Gabby Bess Copy Share Image
The ultimate source of my mental happiness is my peace of mind. Nothing can destroy this except my own anger. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort… — Lily Tomlin Copy Share Image
(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time) — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
Nothing is more untoward than a grown man tasking another with snapping a pic expressly so he can 'flex the 'fit.' It's… — Mary H.K. Choi Copy Share Image
Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
“As the existential philosopher Albert Camus said (and I’m pretty sure he wasn’t on LSD at the time): ‘You will never be… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“I have read of the great wars of ages past, and men slaughtered by the tens of thousands. And we give but… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
The horrors have made the legend of Mandelstam and are inevitably the lens through which we read his work and life. But… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
The one-sided exploitation of existential guilt is thought reform's trump card, and perhaps its most important source of emotional influence over its… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I think that the thing is, all those years of creating music or trying to express something of a dark shadow, an… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
It was a truism that all civilizations were basically neurotic until they made contact with everybody else and found their place within… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is what it is to be human: to see the essential existential futility of all action, all striving -- and to… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
[Jean-Paul] Sartre was a throwback to the existential period. I'm not really so much into that these days. I went through a… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes.… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I'm interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child. — Louis Garrel Copy Share Image
“There is that difference between being kicked in the teeth and reading a description of being kicked in the teeth. Some call… — Gita Mehta Copy Share Image
That existential crisis is something you rarely see portrayed by black characters; the idea that people think about their own existence and… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
For me, empathy is an existential question - it's about the survival of the human race. That is, it's imperative for us… — Daniel Lubetzky Copy Share Image
Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender… — Kiki Dimoula Copy Share Image
I'm really enjoying growing up. I feel like so much of my life was in an existential crisis when I was young,… — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The real existential challenge is to live up to your fullest potential, along with living up to your intense sense of responsibility… — Fei-Fei Li Copy Share Image
I wouldn't have been born if my parents had stayed in China. Which is kind of funny. But it also just kind… — Bowen Yang Copy Share Image
For what endless years this life will have to go on! He felt, with a kind of horror, his own strong youth… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Maybe the path went in a circle. Maybe there was a more gradual, friendly slope back up the mountain so he wouldn't… — Drew Magary Copy Share Image
“So am I dead? How many kinds of living and dead and living dead and dead living had I been in just… — Joan Frances Turner Copy Share Image
Zen is not “attained” by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now.” We do not… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
From the Israeli perspective, the fear is that if pressure is off of Iran, Israel would be left having to accept the… — Trita Parsi Copy Share Image
Whereever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
![“[Jean-Paul] Sartre was a throwback to the existential period. I'm not really so much into that these days. I went through a period of going over things and looking at them again to see what they were. But I'm into psychiatry type things. I'm into philosophy. I'm into that sort of thing.” quote by Van Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4d3/van-morrison-1192_existential_jean-paul-sartre-was-a-throwback-to-the_2723543.jpg)
