Existential anxiety is the constitutive condition of a creature that has certain conditions attached to its existence. In the case of human beings, we are creatures who know that time is running out. We want to know what lies in the future but we cannot, nor can we hope to change the future. And this makes us very anxious. All of us suffer from basic existential anxiety. But since each of us is unique, with particular life histories and material conditions, the anxiety that we suffer from is also distinctive and unique.
-Samir Chopra
Also we may conflate existential anxiety with a narrative based on the past.






