Quotes About Existential Angst

#1. Gradually her fear faded to the existential angst that incessantly haunts all mankind in modernity.

Nell Zink

#2. The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.

Rainn Wilson

#3. I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst.

Jason Silva

#4. I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.

Meg Ryan

#5. Existential angst was far, far above her pay grade.

Emily Gould

#6. I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see a wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is slowly scanning the ceiling for flies.

Merrill Markoe

#7. As women glide from their twenties to thirties, Shazzer argues, the balance of power subtly shifts. Even the most outrageous minxes lose their nerve, wrestling with the first twinges of existential angst: fears of dying alone and being found three weeks later half-eaten by an Alsatian.

Helen Fielding

#8. I feel there's an existential angst among young people. I didn't have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb.

Sergey Brin

#9. [I'm] as broke as the ten commandments.

P.G. Wodehouse

#10. I imagine that existential dread probably ought to get a devil. A devil of post-colonial angst. A devil of complicated grief.

Alan Moore

#11. What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide but existential authenticity each person must find on her own. Getting too deeply into statistics is like trying to quench a thirst with salty water. The angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability.

Paul Kalanithi

#12. I see myself as quite feminine. But many people seem to think differently about that; sometimes people mistake me for a man. In Paris I often hear 'bonjour monsieur'.

Saskia De Brauw

#13. Love is the light of life.

Debasish Mridha

#14. The only God-ordained fear is the fear of God, and if we fear Him, we don't have to fear anyone or anything else.

Mark Batterson

#15. I'm sorry, I'm not very knowledgeable about the plastic model industry, so I can't answer that question. Unfortunately, I can't really make a statement on the plastic scale modeling kits, probably because I'd be eradicated from the industry if I made my true feelings known.

Yoshiyuki Tomino

#16. When people think of diversity, they think people of color, but it also means women, who are severely underrepresented as directors, writers and producers.

Eva Longoria

#17. People in third-world countries are less eager to see movies full of angst over existential problems, and who can blame them. They've got other fish to fry. They'd rather see a few great dance routines and the guy end up with the girl.

Alison Owen

#18. My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.

Mitch Albom

#19. His hand came forward, an all too manly appendage lined by callouses. If that trigger finger could produce as accurate shooting as the callous running across it suggested, she'd be tempted to be sick. She'd worked her whole life for a star and he'd gotten one within a half hour.

Anne Garboczi Evans

#20. Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.

P. J. O'Rourke

#21. I felt so liberated when I first saw this play, because for me this is the gateway to contemplation, or this is the gateway to love, or this is the gateway to faith, not sitting and reading a book by an isolated monk, god bless him. This is.

Will Oldham

#22. We tend to overlook the simplest of things in our quest for a better life.

Anuja Ghosh

#23. Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours.

Brian Koslow

#24. California is the third largest oil producer. More importantly, California burns more oil, consumes more oil than any state or collection of states in America.

Jerry Brown

#25. Bitterness only consumes the vessel that contains it.

Rubin Carter

#26. Always try to be better than you; this is all that matters.

Debasish Mridha

#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