I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
A poverty learned with the humble, the poor, the sick and all those who are on the existential outskirts of life. A… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary, existential… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
I am afraid of abandonment, and, if you will, in a really existential way, being exposed as a fraud. Everyone's afraid of… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
When it is made to appear as though not knowing everything about everyone is an existential crisis, then you feel that bending… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Whereever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
From the Israeli perspective, the fear is that if pressure is off of Iran, Israel would be left having to accept the… — Trita Parsi Copy Share Image
“So am I dead? How many kinds of living and dead and living dead and dead living had I been in just… — Joan Frances Turner Copy Share Image
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
One of the manifestations of depression for me is that I lose my will. And I thereby lose my ability to focus.… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
“The human psyche evolved in order to defend itself against seeing the truth. To prevent us from catching sight of the mechanism.… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
All of the action, and the Wild West West fun, crazy, HBO stuff is in there and it's all amazing, but what… — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Unlike accredited zoos like the Bronx Zoo, San Diego Zoo, the Los Angeles Zoo, these are private menageries, and these people are… — Eric Goode Copy Share Image
The most fundamental challenge of the anthropocene concerns agency. For those who lived the Enlightenment dream (always a minority but an influential… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Polar fleece is a plush, spongy, totally artificial material that weighs nothing and conveys no quality of warmth or coolness; in fact,… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
For it is in the field where meaning is constitutive that man's freedom reaches its highest point. There too his responsibility is… — Bernard Lonergan 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
ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It's a serious problem overseas,… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
We're just animals, creatures smart enough and unlucky enough to have figured out we're alive, and we're going to die without ever… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is… — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
I would say that our patients never really despair because of any suffering in itself! Instead, their despair stems in each instance… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
During our religious instruction in school, we always asked: How can one prove the existence of God? And I have learned that… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
For me, empathy is an existential question - it's about the survival of the human race. That is, it's imperative for us… — Daniel Lubetzky Copy Share Image
Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender… — Kiki Dimoula Copy Share Image
Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on." The older woman poured herself a glass of sangria. "Screw… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Nothing is more untoward than a grown man tasking another with snapping a pic expressly so he can 'flex the 'fit.' It's… — Mary H.K. Choi Copy Share Image
Believers are increasingly aware that, unless the Good News is made known also in the digital world, it may be absent in… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Hezbollah, Hamas, Al-Qaeda, they all have ties to Iranian money. I think they are the biggest exist - existential threat... Russia could… — Eric Bolling Copy Share Image
I'm trying to have a moment o' existential dreed here, right? Crivens, it's a puir lookout if a man canna feel the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Some people stick with the traditional, feeling struck by the epic beauty or blown away by the insane scale of the universe.… — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
And desires are never here and now - they are non-existential. They are just mental, in the mind. And they cannot be… — Anonymous 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
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
I never had an existential moment when I asked myself what I was going to do. I always wanted to be a… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable,… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
“For who are we if not the sum of our experiences, the things that we gather and collect in life? Once you… — C.J. Tudor Copy Share Image