Existential Quotes · Page 4

Though love is instinctive, it cannot develop without a certain stimulus and use.

— Lu Xun

The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber.

— Michael Mullen

The blues is also existential and offers a sense of mature reflection that enabled it to be the leitmotif of modern life.

— Lewis Gordon

I'm really interested in how people face existential crises and either overcome them or don't, and in how the human psyche responds.

— Doug Stanton

Israel is a beacon of hope, freedom and liberty surrounded by existential threats.

— Lee Zeldin

Right after 'Friday Night Lights' ended, I was in sort of an existential crisis.

— Jesse Plemons

the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith

— Ernest Becker

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

— Jonathan Franzen

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

There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition…

— Rollo May

“At a certain time in our existential experience, we must just not want better for ourselves, but for our country and the…

— Henry Johnson Jr

What makes us most human is not whether we are or are not biologically driven and determined beings; but, rather, how we…

— Stephen A. Diamond

This accumulated debt at all levels of our society poses an immediate existential threat to America. Now unlike the manufactured crises of…

— Steve Bannon

The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often…

— Lu Xun

For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal…

— Viktor E. Frankl

There's very few directors I think in this industry that would pitch to a studio that they wanted to do a multi-layered…

— Christopher Nolan

Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up…

— Douglas Adams

[Jean-Paul] Sartre was a throwback to the existential period. I'm not really so much into that these days. I went through a…

— Van Morrison

This is what it is to be human: to see the essential existential futility of all action, all striving -- and to…

— Spider Robinson

The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is…

— Rajneesh

In my work, it's simultaneously realities, instead of parallel. Simultaneous avoids the problem of alternate reality. In parallel reality, there's always a…

— Lawrence Weiner

Awe is not a very comfortable standpoint for many people... Hence, all about us today, we see avoidance of awe-by burying ourselves…

— Kirk J. Schneider

Black America surely faces an existential crisis, but not the one imagined in the condescending news media - of somehow getting non-black…

— James Howard Kunstler

The individuation of dharma practice occurs whenever priority is given to the resolution of a personal existential dilemma over the need to…

— Stephen Batchelor

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Climate change poses an existential threat to the planet that is no less dire than that posed by North Korea's nuclear ambitions.

— Joseph Stiglitz

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

— Roger Ebert

“A shaft of sweetness shoots through me from top to toe when the sun rises; I shoulder my gun in silent exaltation.”

— Knut Hamsun

Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each…

— Rollo May

“I could blame my existential sadness on a lot of issues, but the truth is, it’s been a part of me since…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

Terrorism is really the only existential threat to America as we know it - as a free country that plays a leading…

— Graham T. Allison

China is not an economic enemy or existential national security threat to the United States.

— Neil Bush

“Modern nonreligious man assumes a tragic existence and his existential choice is not without its greatness.”

— Anonymous

“At the end of time I want my art to stand up and my soul to bow down.”

— Rob Ryser

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is…

— Jerry Saltz

The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.

— Joko Beck

A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware…

— Albert Camus

There's a real existential anxiety at having to exist not just in a generalised social framework, but a capitalist social framework.

— Autre Ne Veut

For years, I referred to climate change as an 'existential' threat to human civilization, and called it a 'crisis.'

— Michael Shellenberger