It is a cliche, and it is also true, that humor springs from existential pain - from a need to blunt the… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
To assume that one's existential task is completed when the individual is brought into right relation with society, that is, when the… — Merold Westphal Copy Share Image
There was a time when people had the decency to wait until they were approaching 50 to have a mid-life crisis. Now… — Mark Barrowcliffe Copy Share Image
“I have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.' That's T.S. Eliot, in case you… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Man is always separated from what he is by all the breadth of the being which he is not. He makes himself… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes… — Mike White Copy Share Image
“Every plant is an individual. Wrong again. We are not individuals at all, we are all connected. We are individuals the way… — Dale Pendell Copy Share Image
As women glide from their twenties to thirties, Shazzer argues, the balance of power subtly shifts. Even the most outrageous minxes lose… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
I'm only trying to present as honest a portrayal of the grimness of human ambition as I can. I'd hope it's rather… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
The citizens of a city are not guilty of the crimes committed in their city; but they are guilty as participants in… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Philosophy would do well to desist from issuing any further injunctions about the need to re-establish the meaningfulness of existence, the purposefulness… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
I'm pretty critical, but I'm also pretty good at letting go once it's done. There's this existential argument that comes in, at… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
“Money Is an Energy" Everybody is already someone else An existential tag line Money is current I would like to not live… — Justin Marks Copy Share Image
The world is changing from day to day; it is high time for our writers to take off their masks, look frankly,… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
You're faced with creation, you're faced with something very mysterious and very mystical, whether it's looking at the ocean or being alone… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
Bond, especially Connery's Bond, was an existential hired gun with an aristocrat's tastes - just right for a time when class was… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
Iran may or may not be the existential threat to Israel that Netanyahu insists it is. But a lessening of U.S. support… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
There's a certain kind of existential freedom that comes to people who realize that all the things that they hold onto and… — Donal Logue Copy Share Image
When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Poverty that is learned with the humble, the poor, the sick and all those who are on the existential peripheries of life.… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom. —VIKTOR FRANKL, Auschwitz survivor and founder of Logotherapy, Man’s Search for… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
All the cliches are true about parenting. All I've ever wanted to do is be a father, but there's this existential mirror… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
When I see a room full of people pedaling away on stationary bikes, I fall into an existential spiral. It's confirmation that… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
What happens if you stand passively by the side of the road with a placard saying, you know, 'Stop climate change' is… — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
“Horrible world events, difficult choices, illnesses and periodic feelings of abject loneliness are common examples of existential pain.” — Pete Walker Copy Share Image
There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
I have kind of an existential crisis. I'm in my late 20s, I get excited by contemporary young culture, but at the… — Jacques Greene Copy Share Image
Putin was very clear, as were all his lieutenants, that their great fear was that Ukraine was becoming a Western bulwark on… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
“White supremacy is a crime and a lie, but it's also a machine that generates meaning. This existential gift, as much as… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“The very first existential purpose of one's life, after securing the means to acquire food, clothes and shelter, is to understand oneself,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Existential questions consume my mind, 'Why am I here?' and when I'm 125 laying on my deathbed, what am I going to… — Leah Williamson Copy Share Image
My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
If you ask me, the hypothetical zenith of gaming technology is direct neural interface - no body to hamper you and your… — Yahtzee Croshaw Copy Share Image
This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I'm in the middle of an existential crisis in how I approach comedy about these big issues. I sometimes find, when I… — Nish Kumar Copy Share Image
The existential attitude is one of involvement in contrast to a merely theoretical or detached attitude. "Existential" in this sense can be… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image