Existential Quotes

227 quotes by 151 authors

I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we… — Yusef Komunyakaa
Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues? — Tom T. Hall
I always had an existential crisis, trying to figure out â€˜what does it all mean?â€™ I came to the conclusion that if we can advance… — Elon Musk
Cinema d'auteur, cinema about people, about emotions. About la difficultÃ© d'Ãªtre, the difficulty of being, existential problems. That's what the nouvelle vague is. The early… — Charlotte Rampling
Democrats and Republicans love Israel and all of us care about the existential threat to Israel from Iran. — Jane Harman
There's a certain kind of existential freedom that comes to people who realize that all the things that they hold onto and that they think… — Donal Logue
I went to school, and I remember that you had to do these tests to find out what set you're in - how clever you… — Kit Harington
Some people stick with the traditional, feeling struck by the epic beauty or blown away by the insane scale of the universe. Personally, I go… — Enrico Fermi
Pure, existential space was regularly winking at me, each time in a more impressive manner, and this sensation of total freedom attracted me so powerfully… — Yves Klein
A true religion will have the humbleness to admit that only a few things are known, much more is unknown, and something will always remain… — Rajneesh
Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel. — Robert M. Gates
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever. — Germaine Greer
The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual. — Friedrich Durrenmatt
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death. — R. D. Laing
I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love… — Anne Lamott
Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman… — Anne Lamott
I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one. — Thomas Lynch
My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage. — Peggy Noonan
All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a little more existential… — Josh Radnor
I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst. — Meg Ryan

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