The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Funny as hell, searingly honest, and urgently real, Sam Pink's Rontel puts to shame most modern fiction. His writing perfectly captures the… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
I have existential worries inside of me, but I don't always know how to express them all the time. — Lisa Hanawalt Copy Share Image
I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst. — Meg Ryan Copy Share Image
Less and less is life animated through personal discovery, intimacy with others, or self-reflection. While life has become more manageable for many… — Kirk J. Schneider Copy Share Image
Let those who hanker after the past return to the past! Let those who want to leave the world leave the world!… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves ... a good boxer is an artist ... Boxing… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Try as I do to comprehend the human project and my part in it, I am further than ever from understanding the… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“I want to end my life like a human being: in Intensive Care, high on morphine, surrounded by cripplingly expensive doctors and… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
“All this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew which has grown up on a tiny planet.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great. — Aaron Levie Copy Share Image
All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I consulted a therapist at Mass. General. After about 20 minutes, he stopped me and said, 'You're just a big existential garbage… — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
“I have read of the great wars of ages past, and men slaughtered by the tens of thousands. And we give but… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
Existential anxiety of doubt drives the person toward the creation of certitude of systems of meaning, which are supported by tradition and… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Local terrorism in distant countries is not an existential threat to America and can be effectively managed by long distance capabilities and… — Anna Paulina Luna Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account… — William James Copy Share Image
The real existential challenge is to live up to your fullest potential, along with living up to your intense sense of responsibility… — Fei-Fei Li Copy Share Image
Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
