One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“...And meanwhile the Galaxy ran through space and left behind those signs old and new and I still hadn't found mine.” — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Hamas is a terrorist organization, an existential threat to the state of Israel, and should be removed from power. — Andy Kim Copy Share Image
Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Seeing no resolution to my existential recognition of loss, I decide to eat lunch. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Men who have not known the horror of death are not likely to be awed by it. — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
There's existential fears I have - losing passion and creativity and just kind of floating through life. When I feel a little… — Jimmy Chin Copy Share Image
We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
I think for a woman, getting older can help, through personal experience, although of course older women are then rendered invisible in… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
The universe is biased toward consciousness because the universe wants to be noticed. It's a way into existential hope that doesn't have… — John Green Copy Share Image
“When it has finished saying it, it no longer is. The longer it is in saying it, the more it can say… — Francis Ponge Copy Share Image
Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and others have stated that they think AI is an existential risk. I disagree. I don't see a… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
A lot of times when you do things where you're killing people, the character is always having an existential crisis about it.… — Rose McGowan Copy Share Image
“Healthy introspection, without undermining oneself; it is a rare gift to venture into the unexplored depths of the self, without delusions or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Existential envy which is directed against the other person’s very nature, is the strongest source of ressentiment. It is as if it… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
Pure, existential space was regularly winking at me, each time in a more impressive manner, and this sensation of total freedom attracted… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
“The Trenches of Comprehension by Stewart Stafford Drowning at quicksand's smothering pace, A lonely disappearance that leaves no trace. As I struggle… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“This, I believe, is the manifestation of some deeper, existential, probably trite-sounding concern. That buried thing which we try to distract ourselves… — David Michael Miller Copy Share Image
I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“We need to be virtually bludgeoned into detachment from our daily lives, our habits and mental laziness, which conceal from us the… — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
I think Bergman's films have eternal relevance, because they deal with the difficulty of personal relationships and lack of communication between people… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
In those who rest on their unshakable faith, pharisaism and fanaticism are the unmistakable symptoms of doubt which has been repressed. Doubt… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
I know in an existential sense that life can change on a dime ... something has instantly and inexorably changed in American life. — John Lahr Copy Share Image
I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing. — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Did television execs have souls? Now, that was an existential question and a half. — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root]. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes. — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“(...) a director should tell a story that is close to his own existential experience.” — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all. — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak - that gives it an existential emphasis. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst. — Meg Ryan Copy Share Image
Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth. — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image