This collection holds 230 existential quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Oscar Wilde, Bret Easton Ellis and Viktor E. Frankl.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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Most people are other people.

I am gripped by an existential panic.

Despair is suffering without meaning.

Life should be lived on the edge of life.

I'm a teleological, existential agnostic.

Without awareness, we are not truly alive.

All power is in essence power to deny mortality.

In every nowhere town There are somewhere dreams.

The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.

'Ikiru' is existential but with a lot of tenderness.

Humour's the pay-off for all that existential horror.

Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues?

Be wary of too much calm, particularly in your mid-fifties.

I'd say that the only trauma I've suffered was existential.

To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair.

Music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential.

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

"Batman Begins" leaks existential phoniness from the first frame.

You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.

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

I don't know any 21-year-old who's not having an existential crisis.

I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.

Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity.

We like existentially wacky characters who exist in existential crisis.

The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.

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

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

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

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

Right after 'Friday Night Lights' ended, I was in sort of an existential crisis.

Israel is a beacon of hope, freedom and liberty surrounded by existential threats.

All gradients of reality, all existential distinctions, have finally been annihilated.

(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)

People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.

China is not an economic enemy or existential national security threat to the United States.

When something is presented as an existential threat, it is very easy to scare the Israelis.

Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.

Admitting hundreds of thousands of infiltrators is an existential threat to the State of Israel.

For me, a spiritual and existential crisis is the same thing in that your foundation gets rocked.

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

Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel.

I have existential worries inside of me, but I don't always know how to express them all the time.

Climate change is an existential threat to our economy, and ultimately to civilisation as we know it.

I thought I was having an existential crisis, but it was nothing. Please don't tailgate: body in trunk.

I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.

Know your magic, trust your magic, use your magic and know that you are a manifestation of life's magic.

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

The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.

There is nowhere I encounter greater understanding for Israel's existential issues than in the Oval Office.

The ultimate source of my mental happiness is my peace of mind. Nothing can destroy this except my own anger.

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