Existential Quotes

227 quotes by 151 authors

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
I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff. — Dana Carvey
I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love… — Lily Tomlin
Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much… — Billy Corgan
Black and White is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality. My purpose in taking photographs over… — Roger Ballen
Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
First, you hand over some basics-overwhelming joy, existential angst, a giving-in to desire, etc. And then you promise to withstand talking idly about the weather,… — Julianna Baggott
What is the hope that can give meaning to life? Without some form of hope, the Holy Father argues that life becomes tedious and potentially… — Raymond J. de Souza
The one-sided exploitation of existential guilt is thought reform's trump card, and perhaps its most important source of emotional influence over its participants. Revolving around… — Robert Jay Lifton
There is also an underlying, less specific fear - what some might call an ontological or existential anxiety - that shrouds our days and seeps… — Jesse Browner
Vogue began to focus on the body as much as on the clothes, in part because there was little they could dictate with the anarchic… — Naomi Wolf
Seeing no resolution to my existential recognition of loss, I decide to eat lunch. — Chuck Klosterman
Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. — Marianne Williamson
Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence. — Norman Mailer
Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann represent an existential threat to the Democratic Party the way that twenty years ago Clarence Thomas as a black man… — Andrew Breitbart
I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing. — Juliana Hatfield
There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom. — Roger Ebert
Here's my answer to the very real existential crisis that grips me midway through everything I've ever tried to do: I think stories help us… — John Green
We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die. — Joko Beck
The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and… — Jayne Ann Krentz

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