Existential Understanding Quotes

#1. 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.

David Cronenberg

#2. [ ... ] But the world doesn't care who wins. It'll go on spinning, no matter how many people are slaughtered tomorrow. No matter if you and I are slaughtered." After a moment, he added, "I almost wish it wouldn't, if we aren't allowed to go spinning with it.

Kristin Cashore

#3. My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife.

David Cronenberg

#4. Yet all the knowledge on earth will give me nothing to assure me that this world is mine. ( ... ) I realize that if through science I can seize phenomena and enumerate them, I cannot, for all that, apprehend the world.

Albert Camus

#5. We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to prevent violence.

Bella Abzug

#6. From a creative standpoint, I'm interested not only in the idea of helping couples and women, but challenging myself creatively, and doing each one better than the last thing I did. I think by doing that, by adding a visual element to these films, it really makes a huge difference.

Sasha Grey

#7. You should open these doors with care and caution-but, first, you must know how to close them. And above all, you must know which doors should be left unopened ...

Michael Bentine

#8. When we long for life without difficulty,
remind us that oaks grow strong under contrary winds
and diamonds are made under pressure.

Peter Marshall

#9. I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.

Steve Martin

#10. went to sit by a girl with braces and a bad perm.

Stephenie Meyer

#11. When you're a child you never figure a grownup is going to be jealous of you. It's the grownups who seem to have everything. Children give adults far too much credit.

Polly Horvath

#12. It's a taboo that comes back over and over, to suggest that women can feel divided - that you can love your child and want to do everything for it, and at the same time want to put it away from you and reclaim something of yourself.

Rachel Cusk

#13. I had to learn to take my time in MMA, and I was just able to keep a clear head.

Ronda Rousey

#14. I'm actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse.

Cornel West

#15. Try as I do to comprehend the human project and my part in it, I am further than ever from understanding the monstrous everyday things that seem like self-evident truths and existential necessities to so many.

Michael Leunig

#16. Keep reading and writing, learn how to revise, and push through rejections. My second book, Monsoon Summer, was rejected over 20 times and finally came out 11 years after my first book! I'm glad I didn't give up. Neither should you.

Mitali Perkins