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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
(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
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
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
— Viktor E. Frankl
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
Embrace the void and have the courage to exist.
— Dan Howell
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
Ignoring men, whether romantically or rhetorically, is existential violence to them.
— Jessica Valenti
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
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
People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
— Terence McKenna
There's no forsaking what you loveno 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
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
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
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
You think it's a game?Unintelligible? Ha!
Envision no spoons.
This is serious.
It is a matter of joy
versus emptiness. — Kristen Henderson
Democrats and Republicans love Israel and all of us care about the existential threat to Israel from Iran.
— Jane Harman
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
Carry me like change in your pocket and spend me as you wish.
— Richard Ronald Allan
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
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
Seeing no resolution to my existential recognition of loss, I decide to eat lunch.
— Chuck Klosterman
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
To be or not to be. God's gift to animals is they don't get a choice.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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
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
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