Quotes About Existence

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

You can't create experience, you undergo it.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Live to the point of tears.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

I'll tell you a big secret, my friend: Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.

Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

The absurd is clear reason recognizing its limits.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem...