“We can combat existential anguish – the unbearable lightness of our being – in a variety of ways. We can choose to… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The Trenches of Comprehension by Stewart Stafford Drowning at quicksand's smothering pace, A lonely disappearance that leaves no trace. As I struggle… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“I'm not afraid anymore. But I know that the terror exists. I know the kind of terror it is. You can't conceive… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I believe that in the process of locating new avenues of creative thought, we will also arrive at an existential conservatism. It… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I wouldn't have been born if my parents had stayed in China. Which is kind of funny. But it also just kind… — Bowen Yang Copy Share Image
All gradients of reality, all existential distinctions, have finally been annihilated. — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself;… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of… — Julia Louis-Dreyfus Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
There should be no doubt why Israel, our best friend and greatest ally in the Middle East, has determined that Iran poses… — Lois Frankel Copy Share Image
The Room is a drama that is also a comedy that is also an existential cry for help that is finally a… — Greg Sestero Copy Share Image
When I first heard the word existential, I didn't know what it meant. But then I found out that no one knows… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
When you're in [ Bahamas], it feels like a bunch of islands, with keys and things like that. It's an existential archipelago.… — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
I think for a woman, getting older can help, through personal experience, although of course older women are then rendered invisible in… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
This accumulated debt at all levels of our society poses an immediate existential threat to America. Now unlike the manufactured crises of… — Steve Bannon Copy Share Image
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of loss of hope, one is the feeling when your pulse slows down and you are going to… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Atheism, true 'existential' atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly unjust or unmerciful God, is a spiritual state; it is a real… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share Image
“Maybe the path went in a circle. Maybe there was a more gradual, friendly slope back up the mountain so he wouldn't… — Drew Magary Copy Share Image
In the next century, we will be inventing radical new technologies - machine intelligence, perhaps nanotech, great advances in synthetic biology and… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“Not every conflict is necessarily neurotic; some amount of conflict is normal and healthy. In a similar sense suffering is not always… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
There is also an underlying, less specific fear - what some might call an ontological or existential anxiety - that shrouds our… — Jesse Browner Copy Share Image
“We need to be virtually bludgeoned into detachment from our daily lives, our habits and mental laziness, which conceal from us the… — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
In my work, it's simultaneously realities, instead of parallel. Simultaneous avoids the problem of alternate reality. In parallel reality, there's always a… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
The individuation of dharma practice occurs whenever priority is given to the resolution of a personal existential dilemma over the need to… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“All around us were people I had spent ten years avoiding--shapeless women in wool bathing suits, dull-eyed men with hairless legs and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
[Having] appropriated to itself all conscious intelligence in the universe ...Man faces the existential crisis of being a solitary and mortal conscious… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
I feel there’s an existential angst among young people. I didn’t have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one… — Sergey Brin Copy Share Image
The ultimate source of my mental happiness is my peace of mind. Nothing can destroy this except my own anger. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort… — Lily Tomlin Copy Share Image
When something is presented as an existential threat, it is very easy to scare the Israelis. — Ronen Bergman Copy Share Image
“Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth. — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root]. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes. — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
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