Existential Quotes

227 quotes by 151 authors

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an… — Jerry Saltz
Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened. — Archie Shepp
The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it… — Sonia Sotomayor
I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because it was all… — Joss Whedon
I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it. — Steven Wright
The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have. — Randy Pausch
Consciousness and Healing To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through. In order to… — M. Scott Peck
In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death in the face, and… — Paul Auster
I'm trying to have a moment o' existential dreed here, right? Crivens, it's a puir lookout if a man canna feel the chilly winds o'… — Terry Pratchett
I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see a wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is… — Merrill Markoe
Atheism, true 'existential' atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly unjust or unmerciful God, is a spiritual state; it is a real attempt to grapple… — Seraphim Rose
Whereever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That… — Shunryu Suzuki
When machines fail, when technology fails, when the conventional religion fails, people have got to have something. Even a zombin lurching through the night can… — Stephen King
Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, experimented… — Douglas Adams
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits. — Albert Camus
A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease. — Viktor E. Frankl
What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to… — Viktor E. Frankl
Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear — E F Schumacher
Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on." The older woman poured herself a glass of sangria. "Screw that," she said… — Armistead Maupin
The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence (the tenors have… — Connie Willis

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