Yemi Osinbajo

I want to say that this business of corruption and the fight against corruption is a very serious matter, and sometimes I'm amazed that very little is being said outside of those who are saying so in government. It's an existential matter. I don't know whether it is possible to overemphasize the point, but I think it's a very crucial matter.

Nigerian Politician

Gian Maria Volonte

Being an actor is a matter of choice that, above all, takes place at an existential level: either you express the conservative structures of society and are nothing more that a tool in the hands of power, or you address the progressive components of this society in an attempt to settle a revolutionary relation between art and life.

Italian Actor

Franklin Foer

What I worry about ultimately is that when we're stripped of our privacy, when we're stripped of free will, when we start to merge with machines in a more robust way, at some point, we'll cease to be identifiably human. And therefore, I think our humanity is, in some ways, the thing that's under existential threat.

American Writer

Jessica Rothe

When the movie 'Sliding Doors' came out, it almost sent me into existential crisis because I think about that all the time. Like, 'Wait. If I left my house five minutes later, maybe this would have happened and I'd be on this different track of my life. How would that affect me?

American Actress

Sonia Sotomayor

The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.

American Judge

Imre Kertesz

Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.

Hungarian Author

Jeremy Stoppelman

About every year or two, there is a moment of truth where there's some new development in the marketplace, some new technology, some sort of existential crisis. You just have to be vigilant about looking out for those moments.

American Businessman

Fei-Fei Li

The real existential challenge is to live up to your fullest potential, along with living up to your intense sense of responsibility and to be honest to yourself about what you want.

Chinese Scientist

Ban Ki-moon

Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.

South Korean Leader

Joe Russo

We like existentially wacky characters who exist in existential crisis.

American Director

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Use 'existential' to convey a profound emotional state concerning one's life purpose.

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 by being a multi-planet species. We need to address -- Essentially, it's important to take whatever actions we can think of to address the existential risks that affect the future of consciousness. There's a whole generation coming through who seem really sad about the future. What would you say to them?

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 We have tons of input for designers of all stripes to work with. We know, for example, from research what's most important to people who are closer to comfort; feeling unburdened and unburdening to those they love; existential peace; and a sense of wonderment and spirituality.

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 and the rest of the people are pretty strange, especially when it comes to the sustainability crisis, where everyone keeps saying climate change is an existential threat and the most important issue of all, and yet they just carry on like before.

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 existential threat to them chimpanzees are almost certainly vulnerable to coronavirus and they probably will have a higher mortality rate than humans if it gets into their population realistically we are looking at a very real chance of losing

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 No one asked for answers to the big existential questions or for proof of God or the meaning of life like I had set out to find. They didn't even ask for an end to war or global hunger. Even when they could have asked for absolutely anything,

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 And she would be there, you know, kind of talking with the class, you know, talking about the, you know, the existential futility of life, you know. And we were only 11 years old, so it was not appropriate.

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 This monologue personifies Hamlet’s existential being torn between thought and action, unable to choose between life and death. But his endless questioning raises yet another

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 think of this as a an agnostic approach to soul an existential one if you like an existentialist what I mean said a way to open out the idea to give it room to

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