Quotes About Existential Existence

#1. The question of being is the darkest in all philosophy.

William James

#2. I have a website because it's an interesting tool, very - and quite unexpectedly - useful for my work. It's become an archive and a fairly complete on-line portfolio, as well as offering an opportunity to write a little.

John Howe

#3. You are the illusion. The person in the mirror is real.

Isaac Hooke

#4. Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.

Viktor E. Frankl

#5. During our religious instruction in school, we always asked: How can one prove the existence of God? And I have learned that the Catholic Church, which is never at a loss for an answer when it comes to existential questions, responds as follows: This question simply does not arise.

Jean-Claude Juncker

#6. State Department lawyers need to have the evidence to back up the charge before they make it. Here's Nebraska Republican Jeff Fortenberry questioning Assistant Secretary of State Anne Patterson at a House.

Tom Gjelten

#7. Sometimes you can just step into the character, and you get all your feelings and emotions just from sympathizing with her and being her. But then, other times, you just have to resort back to anything that you've been through in your own life and try to play that.

Charity Shea

#8. you expect to be able to understand the exact workings of the Almighty?

Brandon Sanderson

#9. Let me not anchor you to a bed of weary rocks, but let me be the kite's string that guides you in your flight.

Richard Ronald Allan

#10. How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance!

Philip Sidney

#11. You never know what people will choose to be offended by.

Gilbert Gottfried

#12. How others judge me is none of my business.

LL Cool J

#13. When I kissed you the day I left, I swear to God you stripped me bare.

Scarlett Cole

#14. 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

#15. At the end of time I want my art to stand up and my soul to bow down.

Rob Ryser

#16. No, emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is a type of existence. You must use this existential emptiness to fill yourself.

Liu Cixin

#17. Wild animals are only wild to save their existence...for their survival; but human animals are wild to do harm to their own species

Munia Khan

#18. I think it's just a coincidence that the North American teams are out. Most of us here have been playing in North America for a long time. Our knowledge of the big ice has been world championships here and there, same for the Canadians and the Americans. I don't see it as an advantage.

Daniel Alfredsson

#19. Perception through emptiness is existential, as the transience of all phenomena affirms the indivisibility of existence itself, before, within and behind all manifestation.

Georgi Y. Johnson

#20. There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or justifiable. You feel absurd.

Julian Barnes

#21. Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence.

Norman Mailer

#22. The fin whale is the second largest whale species on Earth, weighing up to 80 tons.

Pierce Brosnan

#23. Carry me like change in your pocket and spend me as you wish.

Richard Ronald Allan

#24. Might it have been nothing but life itself? Life; this limitless complex sea, filled with assorted flotsam, brimming with capricious, violent, and yet eternally transparent blues and greens.

Yukio Mishima

#25. No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.

Simone De Beauvoir