Quotes About Existentialism

I had no more need of God than He had of me, and if there were one, I often said to myself, I would meet Him calmly and spit in His face.

I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure.

I am alone. There is no God where I am.

If there is a God what the hell is He for?

Oh, sure. Of course, they say now that we've got Freud and the motorcar, God is dead." "He's not dead; just very tired.

Do you believe in God, doctor?" No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.

The absurd is sin without God.

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

I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of this world.... I am the toxic waste by-product of God's creation.

Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened before.

It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.

...and you don't even have to sleep alone, you don't even have to sleep at all; and so, all you have to do is show the stick to the dog now and then and say, 'Thank God for nothing.'

The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.

Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.

I am, therefore there is a God.

I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.

I consider Les Nourritures Terrestres as a frightening book: "Look for God in no other place than everywhere." Go and tell that to a workman, an engineer!

To Be is to live with God.

We have to believe in a God who is like the true God in everything except that he does not exist, since we have not reached the point where God exists.

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.

What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled.

Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.

In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness.