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The existential paradox we all experience; we feel that we are immortal, yet we know that we will die. — Calvin Trillin

Abraham Maslow, I present to you Augustus Waters, whose existential curiosity dwarfed that of his well-fed, well-loved, healthy brethren. — John Green

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

Great powers can tend to be casual because the situation is not existential. This increases the cost of doing what is necessary. — George Friedman

She has survived but she doesnt know what. — Gwen Calvo

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude. — Jonathan Franzen

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. — Josh Radnor

Batman Begins leaks existential phoniness from the first frame. — Stephanie Zacharek

Despair is suffering without meaning. — Viktor E. Frankl

I don't know anything anymore. Is that normal? Is it normal to notice the enormity of everything and just go blank? — A.M. Homes

I could not blot out hope, for hope belongs to the future. — Lu Xun

The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom. — Viktor E. Frankl

There's real evil, Mr Honey. Not that existential crap, either. — Laird Barron

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. — Sean Lennon

How are you, it wasn't a courtesy, it was an existential question. — Gillian Flynn

I know in an existential sense that life can change on a dime ... something has instantly and inexorably changed in American life. — John Lahr

I was playing it existential, and maybe a bit stupid, but it was the only way I knew how to play it. — Jonathan Lethem

All power is in essence power to deny mortality. — Ernest Becker

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

There was a strong odor of electricity, grease and existential bitterness. — K.A. Bedford

Embrace the void and have the courage to exist. — Dan Howell

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. — Sergey Brin

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level. — Jerry Saltz

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. — R.D. Laing

From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living. — Arundhati Roy

The Room is a drama that is also a comedy that is also an existential cry for help that is finally a testament to human endurance. — Greg Sestero

Like most human behavior, violence has meaning: it only seems 'senseless' or 'meaningless' to the extent we are unable-or unwilling-to decode it. — Stephen A. Diamond

I'm not on drugs, Ben. I'm having an existential crisis. — Kim Fielding

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

Ignoring men, whether romantically or rhetorically, is existential violence to them. — Jessica Valenti

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

We may not know where we are or where we are going, but we have to go. — Debasish Mridha

Disrespect is a symptom of weakness, of smallness, of an existential problem. By acting rude to me he's showing me what he really thinks of himself. — Patricia Cornwell

I believe that individuals nowadays are probably more aware of their inner loneliness than has ever been true before in history. — Carl R. Rogers

Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence. — Norman Mailer

Start a 'Stop Doing' list. I'll leave it as an existential dilemma on whether to put that task on your To Do list — James C. Collins

Other times, when existential crisis mode kicked in, I flirted with the idea of giving up and drifting whichever way gravity and wind moved me. — S.A. Tawks

Religion is Existential GPS
The mind needs religious myths to navigate the world,
or it gets lost in its own sterility. — Beryl Dov

People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting. — Terence McKenna

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

A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease. — Viktor E. Frankl

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. — David Cronenberg

Being on the spiritual path means you want to be a success in an existential sphere, not just on a social level. — Jaggi Vasudev

Service, it seems, is the only antidote to existential frustration. — Chris Matakas

At the end of time I want my art to stand up and my soul to bow down. — Rob Ryser

Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun. — Gwen Harwood

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. — David Cronenberg

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage — Peggy Noonan

Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom. — Jean-Paul Sartre

I'm interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child. — Louis Garrel

A pessimist is overwhelmed by the existential sufferings of life, he has no time to see the beauty and possibilities of life. — Debasish Mridha

Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works. — Michael Leunig

Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel. — Robert M. Gates

Once you're alienated, you're on your own. That takes you to the world of the existential, where things just kind of float. — Harold Ramis

If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything. — Franz Kafka

my imagined future and my personal identity collapsed, and I faced the same existential quandaries my patients faced. — Paul Kalanithi

Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher. — Antonio Tabucchi

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

I think, therefore I am, therefore I am photographable. — Kurt Vonnegut

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

You think it's a game?
Unintelligible? Ha!
Envision no spoons.

This is serious.
It is a matter of joy
versus emptiness. — Kristen Henderson

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

Wild animals are only wild to save their existence...for their survival; but human animals are wild to do harm to their own species — Munia Khan

Democrats and Republicans love Israel and all of us care about the existential threat to Israel from Iran. — Jane Harman

Men who have not known the horror of death are not likely to be awed by it. — Lu Xun

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language. — Jean-Paul Sartre

If your mind is only engaged in the external reality, your life remains far from the existential truth of life. — Roshan Sharma

We still have time to back out, I guess, if we want to. I don't see the karmic police coming to take us into existential custody, y'know? — David Berger

Carry me like change in your pocket and spend me as you wish. — Richard Ronald Allan

Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues? — Tom T. Hall

Gradually her fear faded to the existential angst that incessantly haunts all mankind in modernity. — Nell Zink

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

Something was creeping and creeping and waiting to be seen and felt and heard. — H.P. Lovecraft

When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat. — Richard Greenberg

I can never be an atheist, because God is our celestial hope for our existential worries, our cosmic chance against absurdity! MMI — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It's wearying, like Caliban buttonholing you in hell and telling you the struggle he's having getting along with himself. — Derek Raymond

Existential angst was far, far above her pay grade. — Emily Gould

Oh, Karamazov, I am deeply unhappy. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

..Breaking yet budding,
dying yet living - standing
amongst ruins and rage,
reaching for possibilities
playing hard to get. — Meraaqi

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

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

I imagine that existential dread probably ought to get a devil. A devil of post-colonial angst. A devil of complicated grief. — Alan Moore

Happiness is not our goal. The achievement of happiness deflects us from our true destiny which is the utter realization of self. — Timothy Findley

The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die. — Simone De Beauvoir

Music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. — Archie Shepp

To be or not to be. God's gift to animals is they don't get a choice. — Chuck Palahniuk

Who cares what we dream about? Just getting through each day is hard enough. — Inio Asano

To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair. — Jason Silva

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

We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine. — Philip K. Dick

Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours ... — Simone De Beauvoir

You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world. — Lu Xun

remember that I am not my thoughts or my feelings - that I am actually fine, with the flu, within the existential dilemma of being human. — Robert Levithan

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

At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave. — Jack Kerouac

No, emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is a type of existence. You must use this existential emptiness to fill yourself. — Liu Cixin

Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation. — Marc Riboud

We co-existed in peaceful detachment — Tsitsi Dangarembga

Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Everything ends,' the Master said. 'That's the beauty of it. — Alastair Reynolds