Top 400 Existential Quotes & Sayings

I don't know any 21-year-old who's not having an existential crisis.

I really like that homosexuality is a little bit of an existential puzzle.

I am gripped by an existential panic.

The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.

Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues?

The existential attitude is one of involvement in contrast to a merely theoretical or detached attitude. "Existential" in this sense can be defined as participating in a situation, especially a cognitive situation, with the whole of one's existence.

The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak - that gives it an existential emphasis.

I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.

I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.

Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.

Admitting hundreds of thousands of infiltrators is an existential threat to the State of Israel.

'Ikiru' is existential but with a lot of tenderness.

Right after 'Friday Night Lights' ended, I was in sort of an existential crisis.

There is nowhere I encounter greater understanding for Israel's existential issues than in the Oval Office.

For years, I referred to climate change as an 'existential' threat to human civilization, and called it a 'crisis.'

The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.

China is not an economic enemy or existential national security threat to the United States.

People still have existential anxiety. It just may not be expressed in Hebraic idiom.

I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.

To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair.

Israel is a beacon of hope, freedom and liberty surrounded by existential threats.

... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.

I'm a teleological, existential agnostic.

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 that I painted some monochrome surfaces just to 'see,' to 'see' with my own eyes what existential sensibility granted me: absolute freedom!

This is the personal side of things. When I started going through some of those transitions in my mind, just as a human being versus as an artist, I tried to... Essentially, I did this thing called Landmark Forum. It's three days of mind-expanding, existential philosophy, like Jean-Paul Sartre for everyday living. In existential philosophy they talk about "Being and Nothingness," this idea of not putting meaning onto things, and that in that way you live more purely. In other words, we form reality from these stories that we make up about our lives.

That is the simple secret of happiness. Whatever you are doing, don’t let past move your mind; don’t let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet. To live in the memories, to live in the imagination, is to live in the non-existential. And when you are living in the non-existential, you are missing that which is existential. Naturally you will be miserable, because you will miss your whole life.

Did television execs have souls? Now, that was an existential question and a half.

I'd say that the only trauma I've suffered was existential.

Music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential.

The blues is also existential and offers a sense of mature reflection that enabled it to be the leitmotif of modern life.

Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing.

The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber.

I thought I was having an existential crisis, but it was nothing. Please don't tailgate: body in trunk.

There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.

The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.

I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.

When something is presented as an existential threat, it is very easy to scare the Israelis.

Seeing no resolution to my existential recognition of loss, I decide to eat lunch.

For me, a spiritual and existential crisis is the same thing in that your foundation gets rocked.

Climate change is an existential threat to our economy, and ultimately to civilisation as we know it.

(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)

I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.

We must recognize that we cannot allow the Islamic State to continue to present an existential threat to America.

Yes, climate change is an existential threat, but there's also kind of this existential issue of why is it that as our society is progressing... things seem to be regressing and getting worse for a large number of people? Why is that happening? How do we fix that?

Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply and meaningfully to the therapist and then, strengthened by this encounter, is led back again to a confrontation with existential isolation.

I feel connected with people because of their sense of humor, worldview, and what they think and feel about certain existential issues (things not affected, in my view, by if someone rides a horse or drives a car or talks only IRL or only by typing), not how old they are, what they use to convey what they think and feel about certain existential issues, or if we have both watched the same TV shows or looked at the same websites.

We like existentially wacky characters who exist in existential crisis.

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.

the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith

Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity.

I have existential worries inside of me, but I don't always know how to express them all the time.

Of course, the surest way to free yourself from an existential crisis is through comedy.

All gradients of reality, all existential distinctions, have finally been annihilated.

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.

There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.

Humour's the pay-off for all that existential horror.

there's no forsaking what you love no existential leap as witnessed here in time and blood a thousand kisses deep

"Batman Begins" leaks existential phoniness from the first frame.

Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world's most pointless forms of suffering.