Existential Psychology Quotes

#1. I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception of death were the roots of motivation.

Norman Mailer

#2. The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology.

Jayne Ann Krentz

#3. Looking for a saviour in the sky? Be serious! Know you still not that there ain't any saviour but science! Get rid of your cultural craps and your religious illusions! Be realist! In this universe, only the realists have the chance to save themselves!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. 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

#5. Christianity has confused catching mice with the real work of the Kingdom, which is more like hunting lions.

Leslie Ludy

#6. It's quite hard when you do fail and you don't achieve what you want to achieve.

Kevin Pietersen

#7. It was compassion. The tragic kind of compassion, the kind that sacrifices itself and sees that sacrifice as the only choice and thus no choice at all, one that must be accepted without hesitation.

Steven Erikson

#8. Twitter is one of those dangerous toys that if it gets in the hands of the wrong person you'll have the mind of a 12-year-old masquerading as an adult.

Colin Quinn

#9. Some of the madmen are really fun to be with. I soon learnt to relate to them. I soon became one of them. I ended up the maddest of the mad. There is no madder than myself! Please believe it.

Stephen Richards

#10. People who are employed in a way they don't like - my heart cries for them.

Fred L. Turner

#11. The great conquest is the result of small, unnoticed victories.

Paulo Coelho

#12. I always feel comfortable, basically in any situation except perhaps airports.

Andre Leon Talley

#13. Doing good does not excuse us from doing better.

Howard Buffett

#14. It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered good by the most highly placed people, those scarcely noticeable impulses which he had immediately suppressed, might have been the real thing, and all the rest false.

Leo Tolstoy

#15. A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.

Bill McCollum

#16. I have been in a youth hostel ... You are put in a kitchen with seventeen venture scouts with behavioural difficulties and made to wash swedes.

Victoria Wood

#17. What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.

Viktor E. Frankl

#18. Pastor McFucking Bride this ... Pastor McFucking Bride that. Fuck him!

S.B. Redd

#19. Those who love are but one step from heaven.

James Russell Lowell

#20. In Parkinson disease, double vision arises from the inability of the eyes to keep pace with each other.

Sotirios Parashos

#21. The virtues developed here in the age range [around the age of 2] of are trust or faith, and will power and self determination according to the Erickson model. The existential questions being addressed here in this stage are, can one trust the world? and, is it alright to be myself?

Leviak B. Kelly