--- title: "4 Existential Quotes By Norman Mailer" description: "4 Existential quotes by Norman Mailer. Plus more from Norman Mailer and more Existential sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/04a/norman-mailer-839_cannabis_one-s-condition-on-marijuana-is-always-e_1580796.jpg" --- > [One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/one-s-condition-on-marijuana-is-always-existential-one-can-feel-the/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/04a/norman-mailer-839_cannabis_one-s-condition-on-marijuana-is-always-e_1580796.jpg) > [Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/psychoanalysis-and-zen-in-my-private-psychic-geometry-are-equal-to/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d78/norman-mailer-839_equal_psychoanalysis-and-zen-in-my-private-psy_1989412.png) > [I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves ... a good boxer is an artist ... Boxing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/i-respect-most-boxers-because-they-re-violent-people-who-learned-to/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3dc/norman-mailer-839_art_i-respect-most-boxers-because-they-re-vi_2127838.png) > [I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/i-was-now-at-a-university-in-new-york-a-professor-of-existential/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e16/norman-mailer-839_death_i-was-now-at-a-university-in-new-york-a_2705499.png) ## Other authors on Existential - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-rollo-may-80838.jpg) Rollo May 18 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/existential/rollo-may/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-lu-xun-61677.jpg) Lu Xun 16 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/existential/lu-xun/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-friedrich-nietzsche-36363.jpg) Friedrich Nietzsche 14 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/existential/friedrich-nietzsche/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-viktor-e-frankl-93688.jpg) Viktor E. Frankl 13 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/existential/viktor-e-frankl/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-jean-paul-sartre-220.jpg) Jean-Paul Sartre 13 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/existential/jean-paul-sartre/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-simone-de-beauvoir-85532.jpg) Simone de Beauvoir 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/existential/simone-de-beauvoir/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-paul-tillich-74200.jpg) Paul Tillich 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/existential/paul-tillich/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-ernest-becker-33772.jpg) Ernest Becker 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/existential/ernest-becker/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-albert-camus-10482.jpg) Albert Camus 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/existential/albert-camus/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rajneesh-77002.jpg) Rajneesh 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/existential/rajneesh/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-hunter-s-thompson-42712.jpg) Hunter S. Thompson 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/existential/hunter-s-thompson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-stephen-a-diamond-86925.jpg) Stephen A. Diamond 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/existential/stephen-a-diamond/) ## More by Norman Mailer > [Conservatives are people who look at a tree and feel instinctively that it is more beautiful than anything they can name. But when it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/conservatives-are-people-who-look-at-a-tree-and-feel-instinctively/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/there-s-a-subterranean-impetus-towards-pornography-so-powerful-that/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/so-the-blind-will-lead-the-blind-and-the-deaf-shout-warnings-to-one/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/writing-for-a-newspaper-is-like-running-a-revolutionary-war-you-go-to/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [I would introduce myself if it were not useless. The name I had last night will not be the same as the name I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/i-would-introduce-myself-if-it-were-not-useless-the-name-i-had-last/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [“City Point is so beautiful, she says. In the night they cannot see the garbage that litters the beach, the seaweed and driftwood, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/city-point-is-so-beautiful-she-says-in-the-night-they-cannot-see-the/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [“I find it’s more fun to write about something that you don’t know completely and that you will discover on route. A dear friend…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/i-find-it-s-more-fun-to-write-about-something-that-you-don-t-know/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/short-term-amnesia-is-not-the-worst-affliction-if-you-have-an-irish/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [Part of the oncoming demise (of New York during its terrible fiscal crisis) is that none of us can simply believe it. We were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/part-of-the-oncoming-demise-of-new-york-during-its-terrible-fiscal/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [I have always had this very strong, call it a feeling, call it a prejudice, call it a conviction ... that the mysteries are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/i-have-always-had-this-very-strong-call-it-a-feeling-call-it-a/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/i-do-believe-that-america-s-deepest-political-sickness-is-that-it-is/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/america-is-a-hurricane-and-the-only-people-who-do-not-hear-the-sound/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [Armstrong, sitting in the commander's seat, spacesuit on, helmet on, plugged into electrical and environmental umbilical's, is a man who is not only a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/armstrong-sitting-in-the-commander-s-seat-spacesuit-on-helmet-on/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/i-was-thinking-that-surgeons-had-to-be-the-happiest-people-on-earth/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/movies-are-more-likely-than-literature-to-reach-deep-feelings-in/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/existential/norman-mailer/#itemlist", "name": "4 Existential Quotes By Norman Mailer", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. 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