Existentialism Quotes
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Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time.
— Steven L. Peck
From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
— Simone De Beauvoir
If you want good luck; you must go out there and search for that luck!! Because luck is waiting for you to look for it.
— Temitope Owosela
And just then it crossed my mind that one might fire, or not fire - and it would come to absolutely the same thing.
— Albert Camus
How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small.
— Paul Bowles
Scheming is mediocre.
— Vipin Behari Goyal
Say not: I live today, I shall die tomorrow. Divide not reality between life and death. Say: now I live and die.
— Marcel Schwob
By dint of saying that I'm not alive, I accept the fact that people cease to regard me.
— Jean Genet
I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.
— Rabih Alameddine
It is intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Time is only linear for engineers and referees.
— Craig Ferguson
From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living.
— Arundhati Roy
Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.
— Delmore Schwartz
It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Sometimes I couldn't figure it out, what all the living was for.
— Jane Hamilton
I rebel; therefore I exist.
— Albert Camus
Why are we here? We're here to go!
— William S. Burroughs
Deep down, it's all baseball, no matter what kind of geometrical shape you play it with.
— Vernon D. Burns
The sky both exists and doesn't exist. It has substance and at the same time doesn't. And we merely accept that vast expanse and drink it in.
— Haruki Murakami
After ten pages I felt that Nietzsche was reading me, not I him.
— David Mitchell
Thank you, Jesus, for blindness that every once in a great while allows one of us to hit the target.
— John Edgar Wideman
Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.
— Ernest Becker
I want my name to mean me.
— Mark Haddon
Little Newt snorted. "Religion!""Beg your pardon?" Castle said.
"See the cat?" asked Newt. "See the cradle? — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?
— Cornelia Funke
Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.
— Jose Saramago
To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.
— Soren Kierkegaard
This is the world, he thought. And I am in it.
— Nick Harkaway
One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.
— Saul Bellow
The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
— Albert Camus
I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
The awkwardness of getting reward in a well-off society is that the creation of appetite often requires undoing the work of satisfying appetite.
— George Ainslie
Uncertainty is the normal state.
— Tom Stoppard
Don't you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
In the real journey of life, it is not what you do; it is what you don't do that matters the most.
— Harshit Walia
After awhile you could get used to anything.
— Albert Camus
How hollow to have no secrets left; you shake yourself and nothing rattles. You're boneless as an anemone.
— Andrew Sean Greer
I can't go on, I'll go on.
— Samuel Beckett
It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.
— Matthew Woodring Stover
I had come to regard him as a loner with no real past and a future so vague that there was no sense talking about it.
— Hunter S. Thompson
You are nothing but what you think. That is existentialism.
— Debasish Mridha
CLOV:Do you believe in the life to come?
HAMM:
Mine was always that. — Samuel Beckett
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Without awareness, we are not truly alive.
— James F.T. Bugental
New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.
— David Lynch
I would like to see the truth clearly before it is too late.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
If the achievement of so much in life could not make one happy, then why bother living?
— Christopher Bram
It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.
— David Eagleman
Amid the pointing and the horror, the clean flame.
— William Faulkner
We shall have thousands of Shatovs to deal with
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Existentialism's first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibility of his existence rest on him.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
I know we didn't accomplish anything, but it felt great to sit there and talk about our place in things.
— Stephen Chbosky
My mother once said if you can't handle the fact that your world-view might be entirely inaccurate, you are not worthy of believing in it.
— Sean J Halford
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
— Anton Chekhov
Sure, people can make you happy, but no one can stop you from being happy.
— Jason Daniel Chaplin
If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.
— Albert Camus
Everything is true, and nothing is true!
— Albert Camus
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
— Simone De Beauvoir
bullshit french post-war rationalizing
— Woody Allen
You think it's a game?Unintelligible? Ha!
Envision no spoons.
This is serious.
It is a matter of joy
versus emptiness. — Kristen Henderson
You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
My favorite word is existentialism. I can't say it and I'm not quite sure what it means.
— Geri Halliwell
All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.
— David Eagleman
This existenitalist stuff sure is crap
— Daniel Younger
The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.
— Ernest Becker
With older people, it's quite different. They're reliable, they show you what to do, and there's solidity in their affection.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
— Miguel De Unamuno
It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
— Viktor E. Frankl
As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it.
— Tom Stoppard
Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.
— Ernest Becker
Just because someone is a loner, it doesn't mean they're alone. And just because someone is alone, it doesn't mean they're lonely.
— Jason Daniel Chaplin
Life has no meaning a priori ... It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
In a single wave of meaning the triumphant purity of being.
— Boris Pasternak
Some men become what they were born for.
— Sheenagh Pugh
We co-existed in peaceful detachment
— Tsitsi Dangarembga
Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern.
— Paul Tillich
I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'
— Craig Ferguson
