I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all.
Once you're alienated, you're on your own. That takes you to the world of the existential, where things just kind of float.
[Jean-Paul ] Sartre was a throwback to the existential period. I'm not really so much into that these days. I went through a period of going over things and looking at them again to see what they were. But I'm into psychiatry type things. I'm into philosophy. I'm into that sort of thing.
there's no forsaking what you love no existential leap as witnessed here in time and blood a thousand kisses deep
There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this theres certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.
In every nowhere town there are somewhere dreams
Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth.
Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours.
Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human nobility.
All the cliches are true about parenting. All I've ever wanted to do is be a father, but there's this existential mirror that's held up when you have a kid.
I really like that homosexuality is a little bit of an existential puzzle.
Jesus clearly believed in the reality of Satan and other principalities and powers. Now, I have very compelling historical, philosophical, and existential reasons for concluding that Jesus is Lord, and if I confess him to be Lord, I don't see how I can consider myself in a position to ever correct his theology, especially about such a foundational theological matter!
I'm a teleological, existential agnostic.
Without awareness, we are not truly alive.
The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
One doesn't do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from.
. . . a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.
The horrors have made the legend of Mandelstam and are inevitably the lens through which we read his work and life. But if there had been no Stalin and no purge, Mandelstam still would have been a poet of severe emotional and existential extremity.
The ultimate source of my mental happiness is my peace of mind. Nothing can destroy this except my own anger.