The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Seeing no resolution to my existential recognition of loss, I decide to eat lunch. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There's a real existential anxiety at having to exist not just in a generalised social framework, but a capitalist social framework. — Autre Ne Veut Copy Share Image
One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships. — David Ives Copy Share Image
The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself,… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death in… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Why should young people look for guides who hang out gided placards to advertise themselves? They would do better to look for… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
I had an existential crisis at the Oscars, sitting next to Sean Penn and Meryl Streep, and being like, 'What am I… — Amy Adams Copy Share Image
“We all have an opportunity and responsibility to create a legacy. A legacy which is resilient, sustainable and authentic." - Jim Cookson,… — Jim Cookson Copy Share Image
The alarm bells sound regularly: cybergeddon; the next Pearl Harbor; one of the greatest existential threats facing the United States. With increasing… — Preet Bharara Copy Share Image
We, the great American nation, decided that we've got 138 military bases around the world and we've now figured out that we… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
My reading of the threat from Iran is that if Iran acquires nuclear weapons, it is an existential threat to the State… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Struggle has a natural place in our life, but the fight or flight syndrome is often false struggle. There are times for… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
I went to school, and I remember that you had to do these tests to find out what set you're in -… — Kit Harington Copy Share Image
When in the evening we are alone with our most existential thoughts, it is then that we come face to face with… — Michael Kirby Copy Share Image
In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One thing I'm super aware of in my music when I'm writing is: 'Am I overcomplicating this?' I'll write a song about… — Julien Baker Copy Share Image
“There were so many different ways in which you were required to provide absolute proof of your identity these days that life… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“An existential faith is a hot, committed view of the world layered into the affective dispositions, habits and institutional priorities of its… — Ian Shapiro Copy Share Image
“When I arrived the News was three years old and Ed Lotterman was on the verge of a breakdown. To hear him… — Hunter S. Thompson 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
“Existential envy which is directed against the other person’s very nature, is the strongest source of ressentiment. It is as if it… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
“He talked about luck and fate and numbers coming up, yet he never ventured a nickel at the casinos because he knew… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“You and I are not getting out of this alive. An exception will not be made in our case so that we’ll… — Tom Roston Copy Share Image
“Imagine the universe is like this cloth.” Philippos said, lifting up an old rag off the ground. “There are thousands of tiny… — D.M. Enslin Copy Share Image
“All writers are demonic dreamers. Writing is an act of sharing experiences and offering of an individualistic perspective of our private attitudes… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
