The internet takes a lot of the anxiety of life away. It's a kind of deity. You're never lonely. You're always distracted.… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
Like most human behavior, violence has meaning: it only seems 'senseless' or 'meaningless' to the extent we are unable-or unwilling-to decode it. — Stephen A. Diamond Copy Share Image
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Of course, the surest way to free yourself from an existential crisis is through comedy. — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
...intimacy being reduced to its content of mere sensation, will only be the misleading, obscure, and desperate alleviation of the existential disgust… — Julius Evola 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
When I talk about the pain and hardship of a scientist's life, I'm speaking of more than existential angst. Galileo's work was… — Leon M. Lederman 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
Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is my number one priority. I've got a lot of things on my plate. But my top priority is to defeat… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Only a minority of science fiction dystopias attempt to plumb the real existential roots of oppression, the flaws in humanity's nature that… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
There's this existential argument that comes in, at some point, when you're over-thinking the songwriting process. There's no guarantee that the more… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“She had been in one of those sleeps so heavy they leave you feeling sad, disorientated, your stomach full of tears. A… — Leïla Slimani Copy Share Image
Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel. — Robert M. Gates 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
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
It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life.… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“A shaft of sweetness shoots through me from top to toe when the sun rises; I shoulder my gun in silent exaltation.” — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Pure, existential space was regularly winking at me, each time in a more impressive manner, and this sensation of total freedom attracted… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image