Quotes About Existential Despair

#1. As a teenager i experienced existential despair as an unsexy sensation of repressed orgasm in the chest; today i experience existential despair as a distinct sensation of wanting to lecture you on how i am better than you, without crushing your hopes and dreams

Tao Lin

#2. To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair.

Jason Silva

#3. My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage

Peggy Noonan

#4. Optimism ... is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.

Charlie Pierce

#5. With every increase in the degree of consciousness, and in proportion to that increase, the intensity of despair increases: the more consciousness the more intense the despair

Soren Kierkegaard

#6. How could you deal with a creature as devious as woman.

Christopher Moore

#7. Life's situations are like a set of cards in your hands.
You cannot change the cards, but you can surely play with them in your own unique way.

Manoj Arora

#8. A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.

Viktor E. Frankl

#9. The union of the states is indissoluble; the country is undivided and indivisible forever.

David Dudley Field II

#10. Kids deserve to have answers to their questions if they're brave enough to ask.

Ann Aguirre

#11. Grace makes us inwardly RIGHT so we walk outwardly UPRIGHT

John Paul Warren

#12. My very first gig was with the Sex Pistols, and it was also our first-ever gig. It was a very short set, and it was at Saint Martins College of Art in 1975. We were opening up for a band called Bazooka Joe, and their bass player at the time was Adam Ant, who went on to form Adam and the Ants.

Steve Jones

#13. Making something simple is very difficult.

Jack Dorsey

#14. His death, on July 30, 1700, set in

Sophia Of Hanover

#15. He was not in the house. He did not come back that night. Days went by, and at last she understood that he would not return at all.

Audrey Niffenegger

#16. I always think any circumstances can be funny. Not that I'm irresponsible, but when things go wrong, I always come up with a joke or think of something funny to say.

Brian Helgeland

#17. A policeman grips an arm to take you somewhere, but why does a wife stroke your hand? What was the purpose? It wasn't the touch Cosmopolitan had talked about, and it certainly didn't boost my mood.

Matt Haig

#18. Despair is suffering without meaning.

Viktor E. Frankl

#19. All the world, as a matter of fact, is a mosaic of little places invisible to the powers that be. And in the eyes of the powers that be all these invisible places do not add up to a visible place. They add up to words and numbers.

Wendell Berry

#20. There were moments when life at school became a matter of utter indifference to him. Then the putty of his everyday concerns dropped out and, with nothing more to bind them together, the hours of his life fell apart.

Robert Musil

#21. I am still obsessed with creating a false world, and will be until I die.

Fernando Pessoa

#22. Tell the President to stand up to our enemies, not cower to them or make excuses for them!

Jim Gilmore