Top 1200 Existential Crisis Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

Being an actor is a matter of choice that, above all, takes place at an existential level: either you express the conservative structures of society and are nothing more that a tool in the hands of power, or you address the progressive components of this society in an attempt to settle a revolutionary relation between art and life.

You might get run over; you might get hit by lightning. I mean, who knows? Each day, there is a chance you might die. And there's nothing wrong with that. Every living being on Earth is facing that same existential rift.

There was an omnipresent sense of crisis.

Rumi is perhaps the greatest mystical poet who ever lived, one of the greatest poets of the Persian language. He was able to express practically all aspects of the spiritual life and our existential situation in the world today as human beings in beautiful Persian poetry.

The Air Force has it far worse than the Navy in terms of existential fears, primarily due to the rapid rise and unbelievable dissemination of drones, where seemingly now every military unit has their own miniature air wing of what would have recently passed as toys.

A crisis unmasks everyone.

From the Israeli perspective, the fear is that if pressure is off of Iran, Israel would be left having to accept the balance of power in the region significantly shifting toward Iran. It's not an existential threat, but it would definitely be a problem for Israel.

Philippine education is in crisis

The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.

In times of crisis, cash is king.

The crisis is the price for the capitalist system

Insulin is a crisis medication.

In entertainment, we have a comfort level with crisis.

Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

Crisis precedes transformation.

You have to help a team in times of crisis.

The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

He was about as useful in a crisis as a sheep.

A crisis + time = humor.

Existential anxiety of doubt drives the person toward the creation of certitude of systems of meaning, which are supported by tradition and authority. Neurotic anxiety builds a narrow castle of certitude which can be defended with the utmost certainty.

I always like toast in a crisis.

Materialism is an identity crisis.

Everyone learns in a crisis.

Crisis creates opportunity.

I did have a midlife crisis.

The one-sided exploitation of existential guilt is thought reform's trump card, and perhaps its most important source of emotional influence over its participants. Revolving around it are issues most decisive to thought reform's outcome.

Incompetence is the true crisis.

What you say and do in a crisis matters.

You get to know who you really are in a crisis.

A lot of the day-to-day, minute-to-minute struggles are a bit more taken care of, so it allows you to start asking more existential questions like, "What do I want in life? What's going to make me happy?"

Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad - at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.

In a crisis, you separate the men from the boys.

Hughes' debut novel, At Dawn, follows a former All-American wrestler, and is there any better metaphor for contemporary American life? We're all wrestling, tussling with the economy, no jobs, doing the best we can. Hughes doesn't flinch from the tough existential questions. He embraces them.

Ailes built a Kingdom of Yes. That was his genius. He understood the id of many white conservatives - their sense of constant persecution and victimization; and their existential fears of an America whose racial makeup, sexual mores and gender roles were careening in the opposite direction of the country of their childhood.

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.

Beyond institutional amnesia, a rejection of causal analysis is the existential rock on which American Exceptionalism sits. The United States unique sense of itself depends on an ambiguous relationship to the past. History is affirmed, since it is America's unprecedented historical success that justifies the exceptionalism.

The ecological crisis is a moral issue.

Crisis creates leverage to change.

We have a crisis with a need to secure the border.

You have to take it seriously that the economy is in crisis.

Never waste a good crisis.

Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.

When you're in a crisis, there's really no playbook.

Never waste a crisis.

In every crisis there is a message.

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 quietly. "What?" "Screw that. Wash your mouth out. Who taught you that half-assed existential drivel?

I can keep my head together in a crisis.

Within crisis, are the seeds of opportunity.

There is energy and power in a crisis.

There are no good options in the midst of a crisis.

Leaders flourish in times of crisis.

When I see a room full of people pedaling away on stationary bikes, I fall into an existential spiral. It's confirmation that all we do as humans is pedal, pedal, pedal, and go nowhere. We're just specks of dust in the universe, riding 1970s stationary bicycles.

Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.

Crisis doesn't create character; it reveals it.

I was drawn to astronomy by a teenage existential quest. Around 13, I was deep into wondering about the meaning of life and what I was doing here. I turned to religion, but that did nothing for me. I got to wondering where was here. So, I began studying astronomy and became enthralled by what I learned.

I am not a crisis actor.

Never let a crisis go to waste

People in third-world countries are less eager to see movies full of angst over existential problems, and who can blame them. They've got other fish to fry. They'd rather see a few great dance routines and the guy end up with the girl.

Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.