Top 28 Existentially Quotes

#1. Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn't have to come in contact with it.

Susan Orlean

Existentially Quotes #43691
#2. One would like to believe that people who think of themselves as devout Christians would also behave in a manner that is in according with Christian ethics. But pastorally and existentially, I know that this is not the case, and never has been.

Richard John Neuhaus

Existentially Quotes #61757
#3. The mature and well-balanced man, standing firmly with both feet on the earth, who has never been lamed and broken an half-blinded by the scandal of life, is as such the existentially godless man.

Karl Barth

Existentially Quotes #129424
#4. To be a European is to try to negotiate morally, intellectually and existentially the opposing statements and praxis of the city of Socrates and the city of Isaiah.

George Steiner

Existentially Quotes #133154
#5. All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.

Amin Maalouf

Existentially Quotes #220910
#6. I'm not really fond of the trails left in the sky and a lot of chemicals that are being pumped through factories and even in the clothes we wear.

Shailene Woodley

Existentially Quotes #223567
#7. Everyone is folding boxes. Andrew is folding boxes. If the entire job were to fold boxes people would scream. They would fold, and sometimes scream, existentially, then be dragged into a field and beaten into a paste. Sometimes there would be a killing rampage.

Tao Lin

Existentially Quotes #275665
#8. Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do.

Ronald Reagan

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#9. There are these people who keep taking you in and feeding you and loving you and making the world a tiny bit safer than it feels. People have community and family, but existentially we are deeply isolated.

Anne Lamott

Existentially Quotes #380332
#10. Physically it's exhausting to cook every night. Existentially speaking, I have so much more energy having that time to myself in this project, this gift to myself at the end of the day. Even if it didn't go smoothly, it was still a gift.

Julie Powell

Existentially Quotes #628613
#11. I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress.

Wen Ho Lee

Existentially Quotes #634150
#12. To be a mass tourist, for me, ... is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing.

David Foster Wallace

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#13. Once thought is pulled up short by a yearning that can only be known existentially, it is inevitable that conceptual discourse should give way to the birth of literature ...

Terry Eagleton

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#14. It is existentially, hyperbolically, quintessentially unknowable.

Gregory Maguire

Existentially Quotes #807568
#15. Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Existentially Quotes #931218
#16. A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.

Eric Maisel

Existentially Quotes #982855
#17. What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.

Roland Barthes

Existentially Quotes #1105541
#18. Engineering is a basic instinct in man, the expression of which is existentially fulfilling.

Samuel Florman

Existentially Quotes #1179008
#19. The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be mental and even spiritual enrichment: a more expansive sense of who we humans are, existentially, and where we came from, and how we fit with other life on earth.

Sam Kean

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#20. Psychologically, the choice "to think or not" is the choice "to focus or not." Existentially, the choice "to focus or not" is the choice "to be conscious or not." Metaphysically, the choice "to be conscious or not" is the choice of life or death.

Ayn Rand

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#21. There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, "This is worthless. I'm wasting my time, and I would be wasting the time of someone who tried to read this." It happens all the time.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Existentially Quotes #1280070
#22. And when you love someone, seeing them sad also makes you sad.

Colleen Hoover

Existentially Quotes #1327447
#23. The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and electronically speaking. Bed, its utter inactivity, offers a glimpse of eternity, without the drawback of being dead.

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Existentially Quotes #1447926
#24. The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.

Walter Lippmann

Existentially Quotes #1554766
#25. The ultimate reality is that God is One. We all live existentially in that oneness of all.

Gian Kumar

Existentially Quotes #1595302
#26. For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth. Existentially speaking.

Ernest Cline

Existentially Quotes #1720342
#27. I would say that as I've gotten older, I trust my intuition more; I allow myself more freedom both musically, creatively and my own life existentially.

Matisyahu

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#28. Human logic may be rationally adequate, but it is also existentially deficient. Faith declares that there is more than this - not contradicting, but transcending reason.

Alister E. McGrath

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