Top 1200 Existential Crisis Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

Ever heard of the phrase 'midlife crisis'?

Something good comes out of every crisis.

It's kindness that helps people cope with a crisis.

Crisis can be an addiction as powerful as any other.

As history confirms, people will change their minds about almost anything, from which god they worship to how they style their hair. But when it comes to existential judgments, human beings in general have an unfalteringly good opinion of themselves and their condition in this world and are steadfastly confident they are not a collection of self-conscious nothings.

Watergate was a constitutional crisis of the highest order.

A crisis, by its very nature, is a negative event.

We'll be forever loving Jah, no matter what the crisis is.

We're dealing with a crisis of inequality, of joblessness, of underemployment.

Transparency builds trust and it's critical in a crisis.

It is in times of crisis that good leaders emerge.

We're Americans - in times of crisis, we step up.

Because I write what I feel the most heavy about. So if there is one day of the week when I feel completely crushed by existential dread, I'll end up writing about it, not the great day I had at the park with my friends. I hope it resonates with people - and it does, with some.

The world system is coming to the structural crisis

You don't make your character in a crisis, you exhibit it.

Whatever faith you have, you have that crisis: what am I doing?

You need a real crisis before you have reforms.

A true religion will have the humbleness to admit that only a few things are known, much more is unknown, and something will always remain unknowable. That 'something' is the target of the whole spiritual search. You cannot make it an object of knowledge, but you can experience it, you can drink of it, you can have the taste of it - it is existential.

Come a crisis, we want other people.

In politics, reform never comes before crisis.

I think that the thing is, all those years of creating music or trying to express something of a dark shadow, an existential angst that I have felt most of my life and still feel today, to not be overwhelmed by it. Music, in a way, is a great vehicle, a means by which one can express all these somewhat contradictory feelings.

With the transcendent or supernatural, they help us contextualize our own lives while we are here on this earth. On a narrative level, as a storyteller, they are a wonderful tool and technique by which to explore those hopes, those fears, those existential dilemmas that we all face from time to time.

Unlike accredited zoos like the Bronx Zoo, San Diego Zoo, the Los Angeles Zoo, these are private menageries, and these people are frightened and there is an existential fear that they are going to be shut down by the government, by PETA, by HSUS, by animal rights groups. So they, generally, are very guarded.

I think our families or parents were trying to do best by us by telling us, 'Do what you love.' On an existential level, they might have done their best by us, but I think, in terms of the reality principle, maybe less so.

As women glide from their twenties to thirties, Shazzer argues, the balance of power subtly shifts. Even the most outrageous minxes lose their nerve, wrestling with the first twinges of existential angst: fears of dying alone and being found three weeks later half-eaten by an Alsatian.

The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

Homelessness has become a human rights crisis.

Nobody would let us do 'Crisis' again.

Consciousness and Healing To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through. In order to do this, the attitude toward pain has to change. This happens when we accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

You cannot meet today's crisis tomorrow.

Remnants of the foreclosure crisis linger everywhere.

Transformations always occur during moments of crisis.

I'm really good in a crisis, because I don't panic.

I do not believe that the Social Security system is in crisis.

One of the most horrible, yet most important, discoveries of our age has been that, if you really wish to destroy a person and turn him into an automaton, the surest method is not physical torture, in the strict sense, but simply to keep him awake, i.e., in an existential relation to life without intermission.

Representative democracy is in crisis in the United States.

Every little thing counts in a crisis.

The Western world is having an identity crisis.

Boxing is a formal, ritualized creation of crisis.

Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of being. It is up to existential psychoanalysis to compare and classify them. Ontology abandons us here; it has merely enabled us to determine the ultimate ends of human reality, its fundamental possibilities, and the value which haunts it.

The individuation of dharma practice occurs whenever priority is given to the resolution of a personal existential dilemma over the need to conform to the doctrines of a Buddhist orthodoxy. Individuation is a process of recovering personal authority through freeing ourselves from the constraints of collectively held belief systems.

Donald Trump, he didn't dismantle Eastern European missile defense. He didn't go to Geneva and press a plastic red button. He didn't make fun of Romney for saying Russia was an existential enemy. He didn't have a hot mic exchange with a Russian President saying that he would be more flexible with the Russians after the elections.

Iran may or may not be the existential threat to Israel that Netanyahu insists it is. But a lessening of U.S. support for Israel certainly would be. With an indifferent America, Israel would become a lonely, frightening place.

I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - two bloated and corrupt government-sponsored programs - contributed heavily to the crisis.In order to prevent another crisis, we need to do what we should have done years ago - reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. We also need to repeal Dodd-Frank, the Democrats' failed solution. Under Dodd-Frank, 10 banks too big to fail have become five banks too big to fail. Thousands of community banks have gone out of business.

We've got to be judged by how we do in times of crisis.

Never let a good crisis go to waste

I don't like the term mid-life crisis.

When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered.

We've got to be judged by how we do in times of crisis

The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

We do not need answers or formulas to minister in crisis.

Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.

A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind.

Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.

A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?

Atheism, true 'existential' atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly unjust or unmerciful God, is a spiritual state; it is a real attempt to grapple with the true God.… Nietzsche, in calling himself Antichrist, proved thereby his intense hunger for Christ.

The economic crisis has weakened the EU for years.

My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.