I wouldn't have been born if my parents had stayed in…

When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat parties had,…

— John Green

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

— Phoebe Bridgers

“I imagine that existential dread probably ought to get a devil. A devil of post-colonial angst. A devil of complicated grief.”

— Alan Moore

Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till…

— Anne Lamott

My parents stayed together for forty years. But that was out of spite.

— Woody Allen

As many conventionally unhappy parents did in the 1950s, my parents stayed together for the sake of the children—they divorced after my youngest brother…

— Bruce H. Lipton

There are two kinds of houses in the neighborhood where I grew up-the ones where the parents stayed married, and the ones where they…

— Jennifer Weiner

I'm always trying to encourage people not to limit themselves in the same way that many of our parents stayed with one job forever.

— Carrie Brownstein

We have an existential crisis, which is the climate crisis. Canada is one of the laggards in the industrialized world. Our record is terrible.

— Elizabeth May

“When it has finished saying it, it no longer is. The longer it is in saying it, the more it can say it at…

— Francis Ponge

The argument that won the Brexit campaign is the one that said take back control... which is another way of saying we want to…

— Frans Timmermans

I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably…

— Elon Musk

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the…

— Esther Perel

When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat.

— Richard Greenberg