The existentialist, on the contrary, finds it extremely embarrassing that God does not exist, for there disappears with Him all possibility of finding values in an intelligible heaven. There can no longer be any good a priori, since there is no infin...
It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.
Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works.
At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life. Sharing this way of life becomes an overpowering aspiration.
A pessimist is overwhelmed by the existential sufferings of life, he has no time to see the beauty and possibilities of life.
All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a little more existential or cosmic.
When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat.
One of the liabilities of being a deep thinker, Wyatt mused, was that it left him vulnerable to existential crises.
I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.
The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.
...the existential paradox we all experience; we feel that we are immortal, yet we know that we will die.
Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
I brought my first fall/winter line to New York, and it was confiscated by U.S. Customs. They asked, 'What is the value of this?' I said, 'I'm not so good with existential questions.'
There is no reasonable doubt that existentialism will soon become the predominant philosophical current among bourgeois intellectuals." (1949)
I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst.
I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.
Jack Crabb: [to Merriweather about existentialism] Maybe we're all fools and none of it matters.
There's a real existential anxiety at having to exist not just in a generalised social framework, but a capitalist social framework.
Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.
Freedom can only be understood in the context of destiny, or those things which limit our freedom.
There’s real evil, Mr Honey. Not that existential crap, either.
