Israel is a beacon of hope, freedom and liberty surrounded…

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

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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

“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

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

Did television execs have souls? Now, that was an existential question and a half.

— J.R. Ward

“So am I dead? How many kinds of living and dead and living dead and dead living had I been in just these few…

— Joan Frances Turner

I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to solve, this…

— Albert Camus

I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender to it,…

— Kiki Dimoula

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

— Arthur Kleinman

If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the abstract philosophical…

— Frank Moore Cross

Huge public spending and borrowing in the face of an existential crisis is clearly the right thing to do, as is putting people's health…

— Caroline Lucas

The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them…

— Lu Xun