Existential Thought Quotes

#1. A monk is not forbidden to marry, but if he takes a wife she becomes a monk with the same powers and privileges and occupies the same social position as her husband.

Swami Vivekananda

#2. Forgiveness is a spiritual exercise that has to do with many things, but forgetting is not among them.

Colin Tipping

#3. To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

William James

#4. I can't bear to hurt you because I love you.

E.L. James

#5. We may not know where we are or where we are going, but we have to go.

Debasish Mridha

#6. There've been times when I have existential conversations with myself, and I've thought about leaving and trying to apply my education better. But ultimately it doesn't really matter. Learning how to write, learning how to write papers and structure, that's been very helpful for writing.

Rashida Jones

#7. Envying another's beauty will diminish your own. But when you praise beauty in others your own beauty deepens.

Daisaku Ikeda

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

Libba Bray

#9. Boy-meets-girl has always been an irreducible convention that occurs early in the telling, to be followed by the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of love.

Robert McKee

#10. John Kerry says the 'W' in George W. Bush stands for 'Wrong.' But he still can't explain what John Kerry stands for.

David Letterman

#11. I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I wondered how they had done it
it, the physical act.
I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.

James Baldwin

#12. The one-sided exploitation of existential guilt is thought reform's trump card, and perhaps its most important source of emotional influence over its participants. Revolving around it are issues most decisive to thought reform's outcome.

Robert Jay Lifton