Existentially Quotes
17 quotes by 16 authors
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One would like to believe that people who think of themselves as devout Christians would also behave in a manner that is in according with…
— Richard John Neuhaus
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The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs…
— Walter Lippmann
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I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I…
— John Green
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To be a European is to try to negotiate morally, intellectually and existentially the opposing statements and praxis of the city of Socrates and the…
— George Steiner
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A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.
— Eric Maisel
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Only a few years ago did it suddenly dawn on me that my existential fear regarding my nation’s future and my moral outrage regarding my…
— Ari Shavit
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Physically it's exhausting to cook every night. Existentially speaking, I have so much more energy having that time to myself in this project, this gift…
— Julie Powell
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... engineering is a basic instinct in man, the expression of which is existentially fulfilling.
— Samuel Florman
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Americans are cultured from their earliest years to be either one-sided douloi or one-sided banausoi, i.e. either they cannot think abstractively/conceptually/orchestrally or else they can…
— Kenny Smith
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Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise…
— Susan Orlean
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You can never know if a person forgives you when you wrong them. Therefore it is existentially important to you. It is a question you…
— Jostein Gaarder
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To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable…
— David Foster Wallace
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Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
— Roland Barthes
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Psychologically, the choice "to think or not" is the choice "to focus or not." Existentially, the choice "to focus or not" is the choice "to…
— Ayn Rand
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The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and electronically…
— Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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I nodded. I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his…
— John Green
Who Wrote These Existentially Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 17 Existentially Quotes as follows: