"Batman Begins" leaks existential phoniness from the first frame. — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“Because it was my crime to have no one on Earth who cared for me, or loved me.” — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours... — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are… — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
I can never be an atheist, because God is our celestial hope for our existential worries, our cosmic chance against absurdity!" MMI — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“As the existential philosopher Albert Camus said (and I’m pretty sure he wasn’t on LSD at the time): ‘You will never be… — Mark Manson 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
“I have read of the great wars of ages past, and men slaughtered by the tens of thousands. And we give but… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
The horrors have made the legend of Mandelstam and are inevitably the lens through which we read his work and life. But… — Christian Wiman 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
Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
A paradox arises: the only way to meaning in freedom is through boundaries. The only way that boundaries make any sense at… — Clark Moustakas Copy Share Image
I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
I think that the thing is, all those years of creating music or trying to express something of a dark shadow, an… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
It was a truism that all civilizations were basically neurotic until they made contact with everybody else and found their place within… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These artists all have some kind of message to the public. These messages can be quite personal, maybe about their own existential… — Gunnar Kvaran Copy Share Image
Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Existential anguish derives from the human freedom to think and act, experience love for life, and fear death. We must decide whether… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I feel connected with people because of their sense of humor, worldview, and what they think and feel about certain existential issues… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Sci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end of our existence. My novel,… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes.… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“When Marybeth asked How are you, it wasn’t a courtesy, it was an existential question.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Climate change is an existential threat to our economy, and ultimately to civilisation as we know it. — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
“I'm standing in a timeless place, between a past that has abandoned me and a future that scares me.” — Alicia M. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I always think of baseball as so existential. Like, you're just out there in a field, in a big expanse of green… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world's most pointless forms of suffering. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Being on the spiritual path means you want to be a success in an existential sphere, not just on a social level. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image