Existential Quotes

227 quotes by 151 authors

One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being,… — Norman Mailer
And desires are never here and now - they are non-existential. They are just mental, in the mind. And they cannot be fulfilled because their… — Rajneesh
I am absolutely against positive thinking. You will be surprised that if you don't choose, if you remain in a choiceless awareness, your life will… — Rajneesh
Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair. — Charlie Pierce
When in the evening we are alone with our most existential thoughts, it is then that we come face to face with the most precious… — Michael Kirby
Love can exist only after meditation, not before it. That is a simple existential law. Before meditation - only lust, only sexuality. Before meditation you… — Rajneesh
For my generation, coming of age at the height of the Cold War, fear of nuclear winter seemed the leading existential threat on the horizon.… — Ban Ki-moon
Death is the door from the superficial life, the so-called life, the trivial. There is a door. If you pass through the door you reach… — Rajneesh
When I touched my hand against the Western Wall and placed my prayer between its ancient stones, I thought of all the centuries that the… — Barack Obama
The individuation of dharma practice occurs whenever priority is given to the resolution of a personal existential dilemma over the need to conform to the… — Stephen Batchelor
I'm simply a nonbeliever and have been forever. ... I'm interested in saying, 'Let us discuss the existential question. We are all going to die,… — David Cronenberg
I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves ... a good boxer is an artist ... Boxing is existential -… — Norman Mailer
Hughes' debut novel, At Dawn, follows a former All-American wrestler, and is there any better metaphor for contemporary American life? We're all wrestling, tussling with… — Joshua Mohr
Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level that one rarely… — Arthur Kleinman
The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat. — John Lanchester
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom. — Viktor E. Frankl
In no way can it be uttered, as can other things, which one can learn. Rather, from out of a full, co-existential dwelling with the… — Martin Heidegger
We are called to reach out to those who find themselves in the existential peripheries of our societies and to show particular solidarity with the… — Pope Francis
Believers are increasingly aware that, unless the Good News is made known also in the digital world, it may be absent in the experience of… — Pope Benedict XVI
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

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