#exist

We are gods with anuses. ↗

— Ernest Becker

#human-condition #humor #philosofy #psychology #religion

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#cease #cease to exist #exist #facts #ignored

When you're shooting a film, you really don't get to be a dad, and you don't really get to be a husband. You don't really exist at all. But I do drag my family with me on location whenever I can. ↗

— Eric Bana

#drag #exist #family #film #get

Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is. ↗

— Amiri Baraka

#even #existence #finally #forces #important

Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#exist #films #kind #never #relationship

There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#existence #heightened #immensely #moments #more

Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies. ↗

— Rollo May

#beauty #existentialism #art

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#also #between #capital #double #each

Sometimes it's liberating to confront horrible things in lyrics as a way to master the shadow-self that exists in everyone. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#everyone #exists #horrible #horrible things #liberating

Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past. ↗

— Martha Beck

#any #because #blindly #built #denial