Existential Quotes

227 quotes by 151 authors

The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth:… — Rajneesh
The desire to live life to its fullest, to acquire more knowledge, to abandon the economic treadmill, are all typical reactions to these experiences in… — Edgar Mitchell
I feel thereâ€™s an existential angst among young people. I didnâ€™t have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to… — Sergey Brin
One of the manifestations of depression for me is that I lose my will. And I thereby lose my ability to focus. I don't think… — Rachel Maddow
Funny as hell, searingly honest, and urgently real, Sam Pink's Rontel puts to shame most modern fiction. His writing perfectly captures the bizarre parade that… — Joe Meno
I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through. — Sean Lennon
Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of the book and… — Otto Penzler
Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher. — Antonio Tabucchi
Good therapy, gently but firmly, moves people out of denial and compartmentalization. It helps clients to develop richer inner lives and greater self-knowledge. It teaches… — Mary Pipher
I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or… — Carrie Brownstein
Only a few years ago did it suddenly dawn on me that my existential fear regarding my nationâ€™s future and my moral outrage regarding my… — Ari Shavit
The Room is a drama that is also a comedy that is also an existential cry for help that is finally a testament to human… — Greg Sestero
To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair. — Jason Silva
Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the one… — Esther Perel
Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers. — Paul Tillich
The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free. — Rollo May
No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself. — Simone de Beauvoir
The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and his freedom can… — Simone de Beauvoir
I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that it can ever… — Simone de Beauvoir

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