Existential Quotes - page 5

I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis. (Mike White)
You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country? View quote
Patricia Marx
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. View quote
Richard Greenberg
The existential way of understanding human beings has some illustrious progenitors in Western history, such as Socrates in his dialogues, Augustine in his depth-psychological analyses of the self, Pascal in his struggle to find a place for the "heart's reasons which the reason knows not of.”. View quote
Rollo May
The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself. View quote
Sonia Sotomayor
I need more than a bedtime story, I need more than a youth group God.I am looking for a savior. A guide. An existential answer to my questions about purpose and meaning. I want true fulfillment in my Christian faith. I am looking for joy. View quote
Don Miller (author)
Transhumanists around the world are cooperating to mitigate existential threats to humankind. View quote
Newton Lee
The Great Flood in the Bible and other ancient texts is a grave warning to humankind, and yet very few people seem to care about global existential threat. View quote
Newton Lee
Transhumanism is the next logical step in the evolution of humankind, and it is the existential solution to the long-term survival of the human race. View quote
Newton Lee
Superheroes reflect our human desire to give meaning to our lives by protecting the innocents, upholding justice, and mitigating existential threats. View quote
Newton Lee
The biggest existential risk to humanity is humanity itself, unless human beings learn to coexist peacefully and help one another willingly. (Newton Lee)
My dad turned 40 in October 1967 ... in April '68 Martin Luther King was killed. In June '68 Robert Kennedy was killed. And in the fall of '68, my dad's mother died. He was left, on an existential level, saying, "This is what I am. I've got the love of my students and I've got nothing else. My country is going to hell." View quote
Alec Baldwin
One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. View quote
Norman Mailer
Climate change poses an existential threat to the planet that is no less dire than that posed by North Korea's nuclear ambitions. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
On the one hand, nihilism is a problem that transcends time and space and is rooted in the essence of human being, an existential problem in which the being of the self is revealed to the self itself as something groundless. On the other hand, it is a historical and social phenomenon, an object of the study of history. The phenomenon of nihilism shows that our historical life has lost its ground as objective spirit, that the value system which supports this life has broken down, and that the entirety of social and historical life has loosened itself from its foundations. Nihilism is a sign of the collapse of the social order externally and of spiritual decay internally - and as such signifies a time of great upheaval. Viewed in this way, one might say that it is a general phenomenon that occurs from time to time in the course of history. View quote
Keiji Nishitani
Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel. View quote
Robert Gates
Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness.'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis. View quote
Ray Romano
Existential phenomenology attempts to characterize the nature of a person's experience of his world and himself. View quote
Ronald David Laing
No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary, existential courage of the woman who gives birth. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing. View quote
Juliana Hatfield
I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be. (Anne Lamott)
Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway. View quote
Anne Lamott
I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because it was all very strange to me. It wasn't like I got beat up, but the humiliation and isolation, and the existential 'God, I exist, and nobody cares' of being a teenager were extremely pronounced for me. View quote
Joss Whedon
Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n' roll. View quote
Billy Corgan
I may look like an American WASPy doctor or lawyer, but I feel just like Woody Allen. Don't cast me for my looks - I have a very ironic, existential, crazy Jew in me. View quote
Spalding Gray