“Each person must implement their preferred problem solving method to address existential questions pertaining to life and death, living and loving, working… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun. — Gwen Harwood Copy Share Image
man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Poverty that is learned with the humble, the poor, the sick and all those who are on the existential peripheries of life.… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Bond, especially Connery's Bond, was an existential hired gun with an aristocrat's tastes - just right for a time when class was… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
These artists all have some kind of message to the public. These messages can be quite personal, maybe about their own existential… — Gunnar Kvaran 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
There's so much going on in Andrei [Bolkonsky]. He's wrangling with these big existential conundrums, and he tries out different routes to… — James Norton Copy Share Image
The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
The most important issues to address are the truly existential threats we face: climate change and nuclear war. On the former, the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the most horrible, yet most important, discoveries of our age has been that, if you really wish to destroy a… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Vogue began to focus on the body as much as on the clothes, in part because there was little they could dictate… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
There's a certain kind of existential freedom that comes to people who realize that all the things that they hold onto and… — Donal Logue Copy Share Image
“Every plant is an individual. Wrong again. We are not individuals at all, we are all connected. We are individuals the way… — Dale Pendell Copy Share Image
“I have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.' That's T.S. Eliot, in case you… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
Man is always separated from what he is by all the breadth of the being which he is not. He makes himself… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“White supremacy is a crime and a lie, but it's also a machine that generates meaning. This existential gift, as much as… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Existential questions consume my mind, 'Why am I here?' and when I'm 125 laying on my deathbed, what am I going to… — Leah Williamson Copy Share Image
“The very first existential purpose of one's life, after securing the means to acquire food, clothes and shelter, is to understand oneself,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
What happens if you stand passively by the side of the road with a placard saying, you know, 'Stop climate change' is… — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
When I see a room full of people pedaling away on stationary bikes, I fall into an existential spiral. It's confirmation that… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
I have kind of an existential crisis. I'm in my late 20s, I get excited by contemporary young culture, but at the… — Jacques Greene Copy Share Image
There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
“Horrible world events, difficult choices, illnesses and periodic feelings of abject loneliness are common examples of existential pain.” — Pete Walker Copy Share Image
In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The argument that won the Brexit campaign is the one that said take back control... which is another way of saying we… — Frans Timmermans Copy Share Image
I always had an existential crisis, trying to figure out ‘what does it all mean?’ I came to the conclusion that if… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Being gay, you're kind of forced to ask, I suppose, very existential questions from a very, very early age. Your identity becomes… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
“Life's existential tasks have lost the interest of reality; illusion cannot build a sanctuary for the divine growth of inwardness which ripens… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
![“There's so much going on in Andrei [Bolkonsky]. He's wrangling with these big existential conundrums, and he tries out different routes to fulfillment. He tries falling in love, that doesn't work. He goes to war and searches for military glory, that doesn't work. He does the quiet life of a…” quote by James Norton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e2a/james-norton-46478_active_there-s-so-much-going-on-in-andrei-bolko_592982.jpg)
