Top 400 Existential Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 13, 2024.
When I first heard the word existential, I didn't know what it meant. But then I found out that no one knows what it means, so now I use it all the time.
I feel there's an existential angst among young people. I didn't have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb.
I always think of baseball as so existential. Like, you're just out there in a field, in a big expanse of green grass.
And desires are never here and now - they are non-existential. They are just mental, in the mind. And they cannot be fulfilled because their very nature is to move into the future.
For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability.
Being on the spiritual path means you want to be a success in an existential sphere, not just on a social level.
Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.
All I've ever wanted to do was be a great dad, and yet there's no stopping this existential mirror that's held up to yourself when you're about to have a kid.
A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common and ordinary. Existential blindness, of sorts.
Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human nobility.
My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.
At some point, I kind of went through this weird existential crisis in high school where I was just really depressed.
I brought my first fall/winter line to New York, and it was confiscated by U.S. Customs. They asked, 'What is the value of this?' I said, 'I'm not so good with existential questions.'
The real problem is not the existential threat of AI. Instead, it is in the development of ethical AI systems.
We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.
Terrorism is really the only existential threat to America as we know it - as a free country that plays a leading role in the world.
When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.
I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender to it, to bury me alive under its whiteness.
Convention serves a purpose: It gives life meaning, and without it, one is in a constant existential crisis. If you don't have the imposition of family to remind you of what is at stake, something else will.
I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst.
I feel there’s an existential angst among young people. I didn’t have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb.
Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.
I'm interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.
I have an existential crisis every time I walk into a bookshop, knowing that I'm not going to read all the books before I die.
A lot of cops in fiction are very depressive and are kind of downbeat, and they've got all kinds of existential angst that they're dealing with.
Once you're alienated, you're on your own. That takes you to the world of the existential, where things just kind of float.
I get this weird, existential crisis when I'm looking through Instagram - and then I'll realize we work in entertainment. We know all the smoke and mirrors.
The human condition is endlessly fascinating to me, and the existential horrors of life are what drive our imaginations and theater in general.
For me, empathy is an existential question - it's about the survival of the human race. That is, it's imperative for us to overcome the challenges we face.
One doesn't do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from.
Im interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.
Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works.
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 slowly scanning the ceiling for flies.
Climate change poses an existential threat to the planet that is no less dire than that posed by North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
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.
Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
The existential split in man would be unbearable could he not establish a sense of unity within himself and with the natural and human world outside.
It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods.
Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.
I felt puny and absurd, a ludicrous midget. Easy enough to talk of soul and spirit and existential worth, but not when you're three feet tall.
I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all.
Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff since Hiroshima. In short, we endure.
Democrats and Republicans love Israel and all of us care about the existential threat to Israel from Iran.
My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife.
Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.
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 or cosmic.
ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It's a serious problem overseas, but it's confusing and frightening.
I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception of death were the roots of motivation.
People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
All the cliches are true about parenting. All I've ever wanted to do is be a father, but there's this existential mirror that's held up when you have a kid.
Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation.
I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential "clash of civilizations." I am an interventionist, but not a militarist. War should always be a last resort.
Zen is not “attained” by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now.” We do not “come”, we “are.” Don't strive to become, but be.
Modernist fiction is tied to problems of writers. Self-glorifying. Existential struggle. This has not been a big part of genre writing.
Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel.
The story of our species is one of overcoming existential risk through new forms of cooperation and innovation.
I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.
Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth.
A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
There should be no doubt why Israel, our best friend and greatest ally in the Middle East, has determined that Iran poses an existential threat.
