Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Existential anxiety of doubt drives the person toward the creation of certitude of systems of meaning, which are supported by tradition and… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Only a minority of science fiction dystopias attempt to plumb the real existential roots of oppression, the flaws in humanity's nature that… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I feel there’s an existential angst among young people. I didn’t have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one… — Sergey Brin Copy Share Image
I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see a wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is… — Merrill Markoe Copy Share Image
“Man detaches himself from his surroundings; he feels alone; abandoned, ignorant of everything except that he knows nothing... His first feeling thus… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You could call it “hitting bottom” or “having an existential crisis.” I prefer to call it “weathering the shitstorm.” Choose what suits… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“We can combat existential anguish – the unbearable lightness of our being – in a variety of ways. We can choose to… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I close my eyes Only for a moment, then the moment's gone All my dreams Pass before my eyes, a curiosity... Same… — Kansas Copy Share Image
“But then one voice arose from the babbling clamor to silence them all. It was a voice he hadn’t heard in a… — Casey Fisher Copy Share Image
One of the dangers [that Donald Trump poses, due to the augmented risk of nuclear war] is unquestionable. Of the two existential… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My reading of the threat from Iran is that if Iran acquires nuclear weapons, it is an existential threat to the State… — John McCain Copy Share Image
We, the great American nation, decided that we've got 138 military bases around the world and we've now figured out that we… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to do is paint a picture of an atypical human being going through all of the existential struggles, but… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Huge public spending and borrowing in the face of an existential crisis is clearly the right thing to do, as is putting… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
The essential gesture of the contemporary novel is to get people to turn the page, to entertain them, and I hate that.… — David Shields Copy Share Image
“She had been in one of those sleeps so heavy they leave you feeling sad, disorientated, your stomach full of tears. A… — Leïla Slimani Copy Share Image
“I couldn't help noticing that the existential space in which a friend had earnestly advised me to 'confront [my] mortality' bore a… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
But freedom is the possibility of a total and centered act of the personality, an act in which all the drives and… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Terrorism and the whole drug scene are vivid examples of the fact that what persons abhor most of all in life is… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun. — Gwen Harwood Copy Share Image
Humans should be the Earth's custodians, not its butchers. Much attention - though not enough - focuses on the existential threat posed… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
“Each person must implement their preferred problem solving method to address existential questions pertaining to life and death, living and loving, working… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you'll never really satisfy yourself that you've made… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Living forms are not in being, they are happening, they are the expression of a perpetual stream of matter and energy which… — Bertalanffy Ludwig Von Copy Share Image
I think that every human - and this is something, you know, like, your years from 14 to, like, 23 are kind… — Dove Cameron Copy Share Image
All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Whether arrived at through reason or revelation, natural law is the highest law known to man. It is anchored in the very… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves ... a good boxer is an artist ... Boxing… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“With every increase in the degree of consciousness, and in proportion to that increase, the intensity of despair increases: the more consciousness… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The existential split in man would be unbearable could he not establish a sense of unity within himself and with the natural… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“It’s also the manifestation of everyone’s existential question: Am I who I was supposed to be? Is this the life I was… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
![“One of the dangers [that Donald Trump poses, due to the augmented risk of nuclear war] is unquestionable. Of the two existential threats - the threats to the termination of the species basically and most other species - one of them, climate change, on that I think there's no basis for discussion.” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/230/noam-chomsky-42_bases_one-of-the-dangers-that-donald-trump-pos_2755620.jpg)
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