"existential quest" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a journey of self-discovery or exploration of the meaning of life. Example sentence: Due to the personal losses he had endured, he began an existential quest to understand himself and why life had dealt him such a cruel hand.
It is an existential quest for oblivion.
Once embarked upon, his journey became as much an existential quest as a natural-history trek.
Director Glenn Lowry saw the highly unusual brainstorming session as the first official step in the existential quest to figure out what the Modern would become.
This existential quest helped lead him to direct a ten-handkerchief teen melodrama called "If I Stay," which opens in a few weeks.
For Mailer, Kennedy's Presidency supplied the hope of an epiphany wherein the romantic-hero President would somehow lead his people on an "existential" quest to heal this breach.
Its combination of earnest existential quest with a Felliniesque addiction to the fantastic and grotesque -- the dark, distorting looking glass of its soul-searchings -- is, again, a signature duality.
Above the band's generally somber pulse, Ms. Harris's new songs contemplate existential quests and pleas.
She began the project in 2005, when, tired of the mainstream portrayal of angst-ridden youthful dramatics, she set out to depict " the normal angst, anger, existential quests, social questionings, and playful freedom that seemed to make up the necessary process of growing up".
An immersive, walk-through work, blending live music with a murder mystery and served with lashings of existential angst, Quests occasionally overreaches.
"It was not so much catharsis, more a national outcry".Much of Germany's recent drama shares the historical focus of the country's most widely respected films, such as the existential U-boat quest "Das Boot".
Reza depicts his quest as existential — the man becomes his own context — and this rings true to Sarkozy.
