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Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it. — Soren Kierkegaard

From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity. — Simone De Beauvoir

What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil? — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nothing means anything but you still have to follow the rules. — Scarlett Thomas

All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach them. — Roberto Bolano

The question of being is the darkest in all philosophy. — William James

Loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of objective meaning from the universe. — Neel Burton

Having just enough life to enjoy being dead. — Jim Holt

Do you believe we are masters of ourselves, or merely dance like puppets on strings having the illusion of independence? — Winston Graham

If the existentialists are right, that life is meaningless, and if we acknowledge that, we are better equipped to find pleasure in small things. — Chloe Thurlow

We can't even resist making antimatter, so what makes you think we are going to leave cloning technology untapped? (Douglas Parsley) — Alan Chains

Solitude, the joy of being alone, stems from, as well as promotes, a state of maturity and inner richness. — Neel Burton

I too am my own forerunner, though I sit in the shadows of my trees and seem motionless. — Kahlil Gibran

The greatest discovery of the 21st century will be the discovery that Man was not meant to live at the speed of light. — Marshall McLuhan

Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity. — Simone De Beauvoir

Sure, people can make you happy, but no one can stop you from being happy. — Jason Daniel Chaplin

Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children. — Norman Mailer

It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution. — Samuel Beckett

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

Sartre turns love into a 'battle between two hypnotists in a closed room'. — Iris Murdoch

Battle day and night against the guile of oblivion ... — Soren Kierkegaard

Existence is where the soul goes to learn how to interpret itself again. — Duncan McNaughton

Pure logic is the impossibility by means of which science is maintained. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

I am naked and a beggar and an atom in the vortex of humanity. — Fjodor Dostojevski

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope. — Miguel De Unamuno

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber. — Kurt Vonnegut

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

You don't choose to choose what you choose in life! — Sam Harris

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought. — David Eagleman

Why are we here? We're here to go! — William S. Burroughs

Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism. — Stanley Elkin

To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing. — Albert Camus

You are nothing but what you think. That is existentialism. — Debasish Mridha

I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing. — Jean-Paul Sartre