Existential – Quotes

If literature is to

If literature is to transcend political interference and return to being a testimony of man and his existential predicament, it needs first to break away from ideology. To be without isms, is to return to the individual and to return to viewing the world through the eyes of the writer, an individual who relies on … Read more

All of the action,

All of the action, and the Wild West West fun, crazy, HBO stuff is in there and it’s all amazing, but what separates the show [ Westworld] is that it’s an existential drama. It’s an intellectual nightmare. It is all very much based in reality. A lot of the technologies that we’re exploring is stuff … Read more

Sometimes it has to

Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the one you are with; you are not liking the person you have become. Esther Perel

We’re stronger in the

We’re stronger in the places that we’ve been broken. Ernest Hemingway

the best existential analysis

the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith Ernest Becker

We might say that

We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man’s condition, what we might call the costs of pretending not to be mad. Ernest Becker

What is the ideal

What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself. Ernest Becker