The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
. . . intimacy being reduced to its content of mere sensation, will only be the misleading, obscure, and desperate alleviation of the existential disgust and anguish of him who has stumbled into a blind alley.
The alarm bells sound regularly: cybergeddon; the next Pearl Harbor; one of the greatest existential threats facing the United States. With increasing frequency, these are the grave terms officials invoke about the menace of cybercrime - and they're not understating the threat.
Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.
. . . a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.
Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues?
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.
Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.
I had an existential crisis at the Oscars, sitting next to Sean Penn and Meryl Streep, and being like, 'What am I doing here? I don't belong here'. I felt like it could all be taken away.
Without awareness, we are not truly alive.
Terrorism is really the only existential threat to America as we know it - as a free country that plays a leading role in the world.
But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors, or sub oppressors. The very structure of their thought has been conditioned by the contradiction of the concrete, existential situation by which they were shaped. Their ideal is to be men; but for them to be men is to be oppressors
I really like that homosexuality is a little bit of an existential puzzle.
I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.
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.
Life should be lived on the edge of life.
Music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential.
Start a 'Stop Doing' list. I'll leave it as an existential dilemma on whether to put that task on your To Do list
I've changed over my writing life. If I can generalize, I would say that the more recent poems - believe it or not - are more pointedly political; although, if the earlier poems were more existential, they were still political; though, in their own way, had a complicated presence.
The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak - that gives it an existential emphasis.