Existential Quotes · Page 17

There've been times when I have existential conversations with myself, and I've thought about leaving and trying to apply my education better.…

— Rashida Jones

The idea of family is really one of the only things we can all say we have and we can't run away…

— John Krasinski

To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair.

— Jason Silva

You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did…

— Patricia Marx

I'm really interested in how people face existential crises and either overcome them or don't, and in how the human psyche responds.

— Doug Stanton

I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

Zen is not “attained” by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now.” We do not…

— Bruce Lee

Donald Trump, he didn't dismantle Eastern European missile defense. He didn't go to Geneva and press a plastic red button. He didn't…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

— Jonathan Franzen

Atheism, true 'existential' atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly unjust or unmerciful God, is a spiritual state; it is a real…

— Seraphim Rose

I also think that we [Americans] are operating out of fear in our country. It's not that terrorism is not a threat,…

— Jeremy Scahill

“God may save all, but human rescue is only for a few.”

— Saul Bellow

Sometimes when I perform, and it's obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me…

— Mitski

All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I always had an existential crisis, trying to figure out ‘what does it all mean?’ I came to the conclusion that if…

— Elon Musk

Consciousness and Healing To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through.…

— Anonymous

If literature is to transcend political interference and return to being a testimony of man and his existential predicament, it needs first…

— Gao Xingjian

Most people are other people.

— Oscar Wilde

“She laughed. 'It won't last. Nothing lasts. But I'm happy now.' 'Happy,' I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.

— Juliana Hatfield

When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of…

— Albert Murray

“There are no laws, only habits of existence so deep that to break them would require unmaking the world that contains them.”

— PIERRE LAGRENAT

There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

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

Michael [Jackson] reconstructed his face and deconstructed the African features into a spooky European geography of fleshly possibilities, and yet what we…

— Michael Eric Dyson