Quotes About Existentialism

Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful

No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent.

To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.

I don't have too much faith in destiny, or an afterlife. This is it.

No, she had no belief--none. She was completely alone with herself. The world was empty for her, but she didn't know it.

Thank God in an atheist.

The French phenomenologist Merleau-Ponty says the body is not an object to think about. Rather, it is a grouping of lived-through meanings, which move towards equilibrium.

Yes, and I have training dealing with deep, existential questions," Dahl said. "The way I'm dealing with it right now is this: I don't care whether I really exist or don't, whether I'm real or fictional. What I want right now is to be the person who decides my own fate. That's something I can work on. It's what I'm working on now.

It is a sad suicidal course our species seems to have taken.

Midesinin hemen üstünde bir aÄŸr? vard?, tekinsiz bir düÅŸünceyi and?ran bir endiÅŸe. Weltschmerz (Welshrats derdik eskiden), yani dünyan?n kederiydi: Bir gaz gibi yükselerek ruha nüfuz eder, umutsuzluk yayar, öyle ki, neden kaynakland???n? arar, bulamaz insan.

My one fear is that tomorrow I may die without having come to know myself.

My only fear of death is reincarnation

It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.

There it is: I am gently slipping into the water's depths, towards fear.

There is not love of life without despair about life.

Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity...

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

We must learn to accept that there is no meaning to life, but this raises the question whether life is worth living at all – which he saw as the fundamental question of philosophy.

Everyone is sick with his existence.

Hell is other people at breakfast.

A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom.

I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.

But death is not freedom. For a moment, it can look like freedom. But then it's death. Anything. Something. Nothing.