Existential Questions Quotes

#1. Accepting death doesn't mean you won't be devastated when someone you love dies. It means you will be able to focus on your grief, unburdened by bigger existential questions like, "Why do people die?" and "Why is this happening to me?" Death isn't happening to you. Death is happening to us all.

Caitlin Doughty

#2. 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

#3. During our religious instruction in school, we always asked: How can one prove the existence of God? And I have learned that the Catholic Church, which is never at a loss for an answer when it comes to existential questions, responds as follows: This question simply does not arise.

Jean-Claude Juncker

#4. A lot of existential questions will be answered just after the "Fuck." As in life itself.

Don Winslow

#5. I brought my first fall/winter line to New York, and it was confiscated by U.S. Customs. They asked, 'What is the value of this?' I said, 'I'm not so good with existential questions.'

John Malkovich

#6. A lot of the day-to-day, minute-to-minute struggles are a bit more taken care of, so it allows you to start asking more existential questions like, "What do I want in life? What's going to make me happy?"

Paul Rust

#7. Hughes' debut novel, At Dawn, follows a former All-American wrestler, and is there any better metaphor for contemporary American life? We're all wrestling, tussling with the economy, no jobs, doing the best we can. Hughes doesn't flinch from the tough existential questions. He embraces them.

Joshua Mohr

#8. My films require that the spectator ask the big existential questions. If you're not interested of turning inwards for answers, my films won't fulfill their whole purpose.

Lisa Langseth

#9. People are searching for reasons for believing, searching for answers to the big existential questions of "Why am I here?" and "What is life all about?" I find that people are able to accept the teaching of the Gospel when it's presented to them in both a rational and positive way.

Jonathan Morris

#10. Each person must implement their preferred problem solving method to address existential questions pertaining to life and death, living and loving, working and playing, resting and restructuring.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#11. The creativity inherent in life is the counterbalance to tragedy. it affirms our belief that life is a good thing and provides a rich potential source of human meaning.

Greg Graffin

#12. One of the most beautiful things we can give our child is music education.

Gloria Estefan

#13. But happiness is brittle, and if men and circumstances don't destroy it, it is threatened by ghosts.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#14. Error ... is less an intellectual problem than an existential one - a crisis not in what we know, but in who we are. We hear something of that identity crisis in the questions we ask ourselves in the aftemath of error: What was I thinking? How could I have done that?

Kathryn Schulz

#15. It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or routine, to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance ... To perceive freshly, with fresh senses is to be inspired.

Henry David Thoreau

#16. What is evil?' asked the Fiend

Joseph Delaney

#17. To all those Bernie Sanders voters who have been left out in the cold by a rigged system of superdelegates, we welcome you with open arms.

Donald Trump

#18. So nothing will ever be written down again. Perhaps the act of writing is necessary only when nothing happens.

Kobo Abe

#19. The question is: why can't parking lots be modest paradises?

Eran Ben-Joseph

#20. A good designer has technical knowledge - don't treat her like someone who's there to decide whether something should be pink or orange.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#21. A series of disconcerting questions nibbles at hearts of troubled youths. These same unanswered questions, along with their acerbic toxins, reveal their pungent fumes more frequently and with greater intensity as a person rushes headfirst into life's concrete jungle.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#22. Nonsense, seems to sum up everything.

Albert Einstein

#23. In a man, I like funny guys. A guy who doesn't have a lot of therapy, who's mature. A man, not a boy.

Maura Tierney

#24. My understanding was that it completed a person, sanding down the rough provincial edges and transforming you into a citizen of the world.

David Sedaris

#25. When I do my hair down, it just does not look good. It's just stringy, and it's like a hot mess.

Kourtney Kardashian

#26. Everyone at 'CSI' has been so great to work with, and so great in terms of scheduling. There's a real feeling of family on that set ... I've grown to have so much respect for the cast and crew - they're been together so many years and still care about the show and each other.

Elisabeth Shue

#27. A person experiences anxiety when they realize their insignificance in the cosmic field, which present state of angst can exacerbated by other confusing life questions.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#28. Oh Lord, I've been so selfish, so consumed with myself I haven't been able to see anyone else's pain but my own. I've let anger blind me. I've let self-righteousness stop me in my tracks and keep me from having the kind of relationship with you that I want. I need to let it go.

Lynette Eason