When it is made to appear as though not knowing everything about everyone is an existential crisis, then you feel that bending… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is… — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
I think in many ways that we autistic are the normal ones and the rest of the people are pretty strange. They… — Greta Thunburg Copy Share Image
ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It's a serious problem overseas,… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
We're just animals, creatures smart enough and unlucky enough to have figured out we're alive, and we're going to die without ever… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did… — Patricia Marx Copy Share Image
A poverty learned with the humble, the poor, the sick and all those who are on the existential outskirts of life. A… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Atheism, true 'existential' atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly unjust or unmerciful God, is a spiritual state; it is a real… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share Image
Sci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end of our existence. My novel,… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account… — William James Copy Share Image
During our religious instruction in school, we always asked: How can one prove the existence of God? And I have learned that… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
To grasp life and meaning, we assume constancy where it does not exist. We name experiences, emotions, and subjective states and assume… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Having] appropriated to itself all conscious intelligence in the universe ...Man faces the existential crisis of being a solitary and mortal conscious… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
Let those who hanker after the past return to the past! Let those who want to leave the world leave the world!… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
“Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential "clash of civilizations." I am an interventionist, but not a militarist.… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Local terrorism in distant countries is not an existential threat to America and can be effectively managed by long distance capabilities and… — Anna Paulina Luna Copy Share Image
I am afraid of abandonment, and, if you will, in a really existential way, being exposed as a fraud. Everyone's afraid of… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
Once I gave up the hunt for villains, I had little recourse but to take responsibility for my choices… Needless to say,… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary, existential… — Andrea Dworkin 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
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
“At a certain time in our existential experience, we must just not want better for ourselves, but for our country and the… — Henry Johnson Jr Copy Share Image
There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The pilot says, "Where do you want to go?" and that's always a rather existential question, because naturally I think a bit… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
As far as the lyrics go, I think I was negotiating a moment in my life where I didn't feel happy. I… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
A lot of times when you do things where you're killing people, the character is always having an existential crisis about it.… — Rose McGowan Copy Share Image
“Healthy introspection, without undermining oneself; it is a rare gift to venture into the unexplored depths of the self, without delusions or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When you're in [ Bahamas], it feels like a bunch of islands, with keys and things like that. It's an existential archipelago.… — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
Convention serves a purpose: It gives life meaning, and without it, one is in a constant existential crisis. If you don't have… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
A lot of the day-to-day, minute-to-minute struggles are a bit more taken care of, so it allows you to start asking more… — Paul Rust Copy Share Image
Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and others have stated that they think AI is an existential risk. I disagree. I don't see a… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
“When it has finished saying it, it no longer is. The longer it is in saying it, the more it can say… — Francis Ponge Copy Share Image