Quotes About Existence

For us man is characterized above all by his going beyond a situation, and by what he succeeds in making of what he has been made -- even if he never recognizes himself in his objectification.

But behind the existence which falls from one present to the other, without a past, without a future, behind these sounds which decompose from day to day, peel off and slip towards death, the melody stays the same, young and firm, like a pitiless witness.

Once they have been to bed together, they will have to find something else to conceal the enormous absurdity of their existence.

God, how strongly things exist today.

That is the idea I shall try to convey when I say that man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, yet, in other respects is free; because, once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does

But existence is a deflection.

she has suddenly emptied herself of me, and all other consciousness in the world has also emptied itself of me. It seems funny. Yet I know that I exist, that I am here. Now

His thought is both optimistic and anguished. It is anguished because he sees that we are sentenced by our freedom, imprisoned by it (since it makes us afraid); optimistic because Sartre believed that we are truly free and can indeed make free choices.

All children are mirrors of death

And here is the sense of its existence: it is conscious of being superfluous. It dilutes, scatters itself, tries to lose itself on the brown wall, along the lamp post or down there in the evening mist. But it never forgets itself. That is its lot.

Bugünkü aÅŸamada, mevcut düÅŸünme yöntemlerimizle, bir düÅŸüncenin bir nesne kar??s?ndaki aç?l?m? yaln?zl??? öngörmektedir.

Bir an hayat?m? yarg?lamaya kalkt?m. Kendi kendime 'güzel bir hayatt?' demek isterdim. Ama bir yarg?ya varam?yordu insan, bu bir taslakt?. Zaman?m? ölümsüzlük için uÄŸraÅŸmakla geçirmiÅŸim, bir ÅŸey anlamam???m. ...

Natten har kommit in, sötaktig, tvekande. Man ser den inte, men den finns där, den beslöjar lamporna; man andas in någonting tjockt i luften: det är den. (s. 55)

Jag kastade en ängslig blick runt omkring mig: nuet, ingenting annat än nuet. [...] Nuets verkliga natur rörde sig: det var det som existerade och allt som inte var nuet existerade inte. Det förflutna existerade inte. (s.172)

Optimisme wil beslist niet zeggen dat wordt verkondigd hoe gelukkig de mens is of zou kunnen zijn, maar eenvoudig dat zijn lijden niet voor niets is. Als de wereld slechts was geschapen om in haar ondergang een laatste lichtflits te zijn voor een paar blinde ogen, zelfs dan zou die ondergang nog zin hebben gehad.

convingerea c? nu exist? o "elit?" a destinului omenesc È™i c? omul "cu mâinile È™i cu buzunarele goale" este chemat s?-È™i f?ureasc? într-o lupt? permanent? cu forÈ›ele adverse È™i, uneori, cu el însuÈ™i, viaÈ›a, justificarea, meseria, bucuria È™i propria lui conÈ™tiin??.

we are not on the side of history made. We were, as I have said, situated in such a way that every lived minute seemed to us like something irreducible.

Günler boyu insan kendi kendine sorabilirdi, ben ak?ll? m?y?m, kendimi bir ÅŸey mi san?yorum, diye; asla bir karara var?lamazd?. Bunun yan?nda bir sabah size tak?lan etiketler vard? ve ömür boyu onlar? ta??mak gerekiyordu ...

nimic nu e f?r? leac È™i, în str?funduri, totul r?mâne încremenit, zadarnicele agitaÈ›ii de la suprafa?? nu trebuie s? ne ascund? calmul mortuar care e soarta noastr?.

Mourir n'est pas facile

Çevremdeki bütün nesneler benimle ayn? maddeden, yani bir çeÅŸit sakil ac?dan yap?lm??t?.

Tarih, var olmuÅŸ olan bir ÅŸeyden söz eder; oysa bir var olan baÅŸka bir var olan?n varoluÅŸunu hakl? ç?karamaz.

Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance: it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing more at all.

The doctrine I am presenting before you is precisely the opposite of this, since it declares that there is no reality except in action. It goes further, indeed, and adds, "Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realises himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.