English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Existentialism Quotes (page 3)

Vogue began to focus on the body as much as on the clothes, in part because there was little they could dictate with the anarchic styles...In a stunning move, an entire replacement culture was developed by naming a 'problem' where it had scarcely existed before, centering it on the women's natural state, and elevating it to the existential female dilemma...The number of diet-related articles rose 70 percent from 1968 to 1972...The lucrative 'transfer of guilt' was resurrected just in time. Naomi Wolf
Jonathan Franzen quote: "Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of..."
Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude. Jonathan Franzen
Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on."The older woman poured herself a glass of sangria. "Screw that," she said quietly."What?"Screw that. Wash your mouth out. Who taught you that half-assed existential drivel? Armistead Maupin
Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear E. F. Schumacher
To be a mass tourist, to me, is to become a pure late-date American: alien, ignorant, greedy for something you cannot ever have, disappointed in a way you can never admit. It is to spoil, by way of sheer ontology, the very unspoiledness you are there to experience. It is to impose yourself on places that in all non-economic ways would be better, realer, without you. It is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is inescapable as it is... David Foster Wallace
Leonard Cohen quote: "there's no forsaking what you loveno existential leapas..."
there's no forsaking what you loveno existential leapas witnessed here in time and blooda thousand kisses deep Leonard Cohen
The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone. Bill Moyers
I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.' Craig Ferguson
Friedrich Durrenmatt quote: "The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the..."
The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual. Friedrich Durrenmatt
I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe. Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Steven Wright quote: "I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all..."
I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it. Steven Wright
Rose Tremain quote: "The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in..."
The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all. Rose Tremain
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
I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one. Thomas Lynch
Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened. Archie Shepp

Popular Topics

Popular Author