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
That existential crisis is something you rarely see portrayed by black characters; the idea that people think about their own existence and… — Boots Riley 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
I'm really enjoying growing up. I feel like so much of my life was in an existential crisis when I was young,… — Natasha Lyonne 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
I think that obviously the quest for purpose, or meaning, or understanding to existence is something that I always think about, always… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Good therapy, gently but firmly, moves people out of denial and compartmentalization. It helps clients to develop richer inner lives and greater… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
True fighters dare face the sorrows of humanity, and look unflinchingly at bloodshed. What sorrow and joy are theirs! But the Creator's… — Lu Xun 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
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
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
...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
These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible… — Viktor E. Frankl 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
“If anything gives meaning to our lives, rich or poor, yesterday or today, here or elsewhere, it is affection. Without it, every… — Anoir Ou-Chad Copy Share Image
For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Hughes' debut novel, At Dawn, follows a former All-American wrestler, and is there any better metaphor for contemporary American life? We're all… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image