Existential Quotes

227 quotes by 151 authors

The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it… — Rainn Wilson
Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose?… — Ray Romano
I guess I worry about weird existential things, like how do we spend our final act. This is a very emotional question. I can't answer… — Ellen Barkin
I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and… — Mike White
I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty… — Alfred Dreyfus
There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible. — Paul Ricoeur
The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber. — Michael Mullen
The alarm bells sound regularly: cybergeddon; the next Pearl Harbor; one of the greatest existential threats facing the United States. With increasing frequency, these are… — Preet Bharara
Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships. — David Ives
So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then… — Bob Inglis
It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential… — Jean-Paul Sartre
I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning. Because… — Leonard Cohen
Be wary of too much calm, particularly in your mid-fifties. — Ian Mcewan
Most people are other people. — Oscar Wilde
To emotionally accept impending disaster, to attain the gut-level understanding that the power elite will not respond rationally to the devastation of the ecosystem, is… — Chris Hedges
Because imaginary time behaves like another direction in space, histories in imaginary time can be closed surfaces, like the surface of the Earth, with no… — Stephen Hawking
When you are totally defeated you begin again to enjoy the small things around you. Just going to the mountains, not for victory or glory,… — Wojciech Kurtyka
Poverty that is learned with the humble, the poor, the sick and all those who are on the existential peripheries of life. Theoretical poverty is… — Pope Francis
Being on the spiritual path means you want to be a success in an existential sphere, not just on a social level. — Jaggi Vasudev
You canâ€™t win enough, you canâ€™t have enough money, you canâ€™t succeed enough. There is not enough. The only thing that will ever satiate that… — Will Smith

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