Existential Quotes - Page 16

• Atheism, true 'existential' atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly unjust or unmerciful God, is a spiritual state; it is a real attempt to grapple with the true God.… Nietzsche, in calling himself Antichrist, proved thereby his intense hunger for Christ.

  Seraphim Rose

  Spiritual, Real, Hatred

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• When machines fail, when technology fails, when the conventional religion fails, people have got to have something. Even a zombin lurching through the night can seem pretty cheerful compared to the existential comedy/horror of the ozone layer dissolving under the combined assult of a million flurocarbon spray cans of deoderant." - The Mist

  Stephen King

  Technology, Night, Ozone

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• Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, experimented briefly with the notion of going sideways, as a sort of existential protest, demanded participation in the decision-making process and finally took to squatting in basements sulking. An impoverished hitch-hiker visiting any planets in the Sirius star system these days can pick up easy money working as a counsellor for neurotic elevators.

  Douglas Adams

  Stars, Decision, Frustrated

  "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe". Book by Douglas Adams, Chapter 6, 1980.

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• I have a very simple mantra and it's this: I want to make black cinema with the power, beauty, and alienation of black music. That's my big goal. The larger preoccupation is how do we force cinema to respond to the existential, political, and spiritual dimensions of who we are as a people.

  Arthur Jafa

  Spiritual, Simple, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I really like that homosexuality is a little bit of an existential puzzle.

  Guy Branum

  Littles, Homosexuality, Bits

  Source: www.avclub.com

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  Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.

  Bo Burnham

  Self Worth, Oneness, Week

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

  Norman Mailer

  Psychics, Quarantine, Nicotine

  Norman Mailer, Michael Lennon (1988). “Conversations with Norman Mailer”, p.45, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann represent an existential threat to the Democratic Party the way that twenty years ago Clarence Thomas as a black man represented to liberals and the Democratic Party.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Party, Men, Years

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• I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Missing, Longing, States

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• There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

  Roger Ebert

  Boredom, Impending Death

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• I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis.

  Mike White

  Thinking, Culture, Existentialism

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• Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness.'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

  Ray Romano

  Attitude, Oysters, Identity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Being Single, Office, Style

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 19, 2008.

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• Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fate, Evil, Matter

  "Fatum und Geschichte" by Friedrich Nietzsche, April 1862.

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• Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you'll never really satisfy yourself that you've made it, and accept that that's okay.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Want, Accepting, Figures

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• These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Meaning Of Life, Tasks

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.63, Beacon Press

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• It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Firsts, Machines, Patient

  Viktor E. Frankl (2000). “Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning”, Basic Books

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• The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber.

  Michael Mullen

  Thinking, Existentialism, Cyber

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• Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth.

  Marianne Williamson

  Reality, Love Is, Essentials

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Seeing no resolution to my existential recognition of loss, I decide to eat lunch.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Loss, Lunch, Recognition

  Chuck Klosterman (2006). “Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.

  Dana Carvey

  Interesting, Stuff, Biology

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• Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Entrepreneur, Financial

  FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from Jan 28, 2014

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• First, you hand over some basics-overwhelming joy, existential angst, a giving-in to desire, etc. And then you promise to withstand talking idly about the weather, to encourage cliché, to uphold the virtues of average. You hand over the need to be understood and, in return, you get a bar of Normal soap. And you can wash in it and be daily reborn to a safe world of modest, enduring love or, at least, mild, well-mannered bonding.

  Julianna Baggott

  Love, Average, Hands

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• What is the hope that can give meaning to life? Without some form of hope, the Holy Father argues that life becomes tedious and potentially burdersome, even if it is marked by material influence and technical progress. The person without hope finds himself in an existential difficulty: For what enduring purpose am I clinging to this life that I love and do not want to lose?

  Raymond J. de Souza

  Hope, Father, Giving

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• The one-sided exploitation of existential guilt is thought reform's trump card, and perhaps its most important source of emotional influence over its participants. Revolving around it are issues most decisive to thought reform's outcome.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Emotional, Issues, Guilt

  Robert Jay Lifton (2012). “Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'brainwashing' in China”, p.78, UNC Press Books

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