Life Quote by Stephen Batchelor

“Anxiety, the other characteristic of modern man, is even more basic than emptiness and loneliness. For being “hollow” and lonely would not bother us…

— Rollo May

Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Whatever the…

— Rachel Carson

“For others, however, the significance of anxiety in disclosing a fundamental insight into human existence is grasped. At this point their consciences will never…

— Stephen Batchelor

“namely, the feeling of the total and ultimate meaninglessness of their lives. They lack the awareness of a meaning worth living for. They are…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“From time to time, we all must go unto a landscape—be it inner or outer landscape—where there are no hiding places. Allowing the stark…

— L.M. Browning

When we become isolated, we are prone to being damaged; our minds lose their flexibility and natural kindness; we become vulnerable to fear and…

— John O'Donohue

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central…

— Thomas Wolfe

There is nothing more difficult to outgrow than anxieties that have become useful to us, whether as explanations for a life that never quite…

— Christian Wiman

A lot of my work is helping people to find their own life's purpose and then follow it. I find that when people are…

— Doreen Virtue

“It is significant, I sometimes think, that the facets of nature which quicken my pulse with that awareness of both life and death are…

— August Derleth

The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.

— Paul Tillich

“the root of our human frustration and daily anxiety is our tendency to live for the future, which is an abstraction,” and that “our…

— Amy Cuddy