Existental Quotes & Sayings

An intelligent investor gets satisfaction from the thought that his operations are exactly opposite to those of the crowd. — Benjamin Graham

You can accept a falling out that changes your plans, but it's hard to accept a betrayal that changes your memories. — Robert Breault

The more passive one's life in the field, the greater the need to reverse the situation when one returns home, which is why the arcane and authoratative character of academic writing may be seen, to some extent, as a vengeful reaction to the inertia, uneventfulness, and waiting one had to endure as a guest at someone else's banquet. A way of redressing an existental imbalance, as it were reclaiming authorial will by superimposing one's own meaning on theirs ... — Michael Jackson

There is a kind of belief among my students that things that are true are interesting. But most things that are true are not interesting. Four pages describing how I got up and brushed my teeth in the morning would kill you. — Alistair MacLeod

As the death of the writer exaggerates the role of his work, the death of a person exaggerates the role of his effect on us. — Albert Camus

Dante felt awful for whatever sorry fucker fell in love with his daughter. May God save that poor man's soul because Dante sure as hell wouldn't. — Bethany-Kris