Sentence examples for existential suffering from inspiring English sources

I think there would have been more existential suffering if he didn't have a purpose.

Behind his skepticism and his wit is an existential suffering; Stephens, who seems not to have a paradoxical bone in his body, can't locate this ambivalence in himself.

Dr. McCann said that the sisters' religious faith insulated them from existential suffering — the "Why me?" refrain commonly heard among those without a belief in an afterlife.

Unfortunately, most practicing clinicians today have little or no training in understanding, recognizing, evaluating, or alleviating spiritual or existential suffering.

Relational suffering is turned over to psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers; spiritual and existential suffering are relinquished to clergy and palliative care specialists.

Could I help them to find a sense of professional peace by reframing Jane's treatment choices as alleviating her relational and existential suffering?

I surmised that the moral distress I witnessed in many clinicians originated in their lack of understanding of or inability to recognize Jane's existential suffering.

Allowing time for her family gave Jane a sense of purpose in her remaining short life, which addressed her existential suffering.

Ignorance concerning these matters perpetuates rebirth, and thus further occasions for existential suffering, by facilitating a motivational structure that reinforces one's ignorance.

Past a certain point namely the point at which we take it too seriously, as more than just a useful fiction it results in existential suffering.

The Duino Elegies are intensely religious, mystical poems that weigh beauty and existential suffering.