I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst. — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
“Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity.” — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
But a people unable to reform will not be able to preserve its old culture either. — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
“By New Year’s Eve I was mired in the kind of existential funk that leads people to find Jesus, or the Paleo… — David Litt Copy Share Image
“Who cares what we dream about? Just getting through each day is hard enough.” — Inio Asano Copy Share Image
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
When you're in [ Bahamas], it feels like a bunch of islands, with keys and things like that. It's an existential archipelago.… — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
A lot of the day-to-day, minute-to-minute struggles are a bit more taken care of, so it allows you to start asking more… — Paul Rust Copy Share Image
Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Convention serves a purpose: It gives life meaning, and without it, one is in a constant existential crisis. If you don't have… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
The pilot says, "Where do you want to go?" and that's always a rather existential question, because naturally I think a bit… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
As far as the lyrics go, I think I was negotiating a moment in my life where I didn't feel happy. I… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did… — Patricia Marx Copy Share Image
Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is… — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
“Not every conflict is necessarily neurotic; some amount of conflict is normal and healthy. In a similar sense suffering is not always… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Like students going to school, the planes on their bombing missions fly over Beijing each morning. And each time I hear their… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
There is also an underlying, less specific fear - what some might call an ontological or existential anxiety - that shrouds our… — Jesse Browner Copy Share Image
You can’t win enough, you can’t have enough money, you can’t succeed enough. There is not enough. The only thing that will… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
I will not sleep fine if Donald Trump wins and I will not sleep fine is Hillary Clinton wins. Whether you are… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Failure to summon forth the courage to risk a nondogmatic and nonevasive stance on such crucial existential matters can also blur our… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Donald Trump, he didn't dismantle Eastern European missile defense. He didn't go to Geneva and press a plastic red button. He didn't… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I doubt if he ever confronted and acknowledged his own deeper motivations, except when they were as pure as spring water.” — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Yes, there was a great power and satisfaction in giving up all hope.” — Gary Clemenceau Copy Share Image
Of course, the surest way to free yourself from an existential crisis is through comedy. — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
“It was all so complicated, like something out of an existential play. Everything hit a dead end there, no alternatives left.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time) — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort… — Lily Tomlin Copy Share Image
Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The ultimate source of my mental happiness is my peace of mind. Nothing can destroy this except my own anger. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“What is inside of you besides this human stuff of veins and bones and existential longing?” — Gabby Bess Copy Share Image
I'm interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child. — Louis Garrel Copy Share Image
At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel. — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
Democrats and Republicans love Israel and all of us care about the existential threat to Israel from Iran. — Jane Harman Copy Share Image
“Modern non-religious man assumes a tragic existence and his existential choice is not without its greatness.” — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
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