Existential Quotes - Page 3

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

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.

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.

Know your magic, trust your magic, use your magic and know that you are a manifestation of life's magic.

I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.

Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing.

I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably that. So we need to be very careful...With artificial intelligence we're summoning the demon.

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.

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.

Without awareness, we are not truly alive.

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

Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human nobility.

A paradox arises: the only way to meaning in freedom is through boundaries. The only way that boundaries make any sense at all is through freedom.

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.

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

...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.

Because imaginary time behaves like another direction in space, histories in imaginary time can be closed surfaces, like the surface of the Earth, with no [existential] beginning or end.

No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.

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.

The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.

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

Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.