Quotes About Existentialism

L'absence d'envie de vivre, hélas, ne suffit pas pour avoir envie de mourir.

And I no longer even know where the source is; at present, everything looks the same. The landscape is more and more gentle, amiable, joyous; my skin hurts. I am at the heart of the abyss. I feel my skin again as a frontier, and the external world as a crushing weight. The impression of separation is total; from now on I am imprisoned within myself. It will not take place, the sublime fusion; the goal of life is missed. It is two in the afternoon.

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In quel periodo cominciò a leggere Kafka. La prima volta provò una sensazione di freddo, di gelo insidioso; qualche ora dopo aver terminato Il Processo si sentiva ancora intorpidito, molle.

Les chrétiens ont du mal en général, avec l'absurde, ça n'entre pas vraiment dans leurs catégories.

Michel Houellebecq

He vivido tan poco que tengo tendencia a pensar que no voy a morir.

Il n'y a pas beaucoup à gagner dans ce monde : le

Aceptar la ideología del cambio continuo es aceptar que la vida de un hombre se reduzca estrictamente a su existencia individual, y que las generaciones pasadas y futuras ya no tengan ninguna importancia para él. Así vivimos, y actualmente tener un hijo ya no tiene sentido para un hombre

Il sut immédiatement que cet univers ralenti, marqué par la honte, où les êtres se croisent dans un vide sidéral, sans qu'aucun rapport entre eux n'apparaisse jamais possible, correspondait exactement à son univers mental.

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life.

Cine doarme este un alienat care se crede mort.

Michelangelo Antonioni

Serial killers are not born evil, they develop into killers as a consequence of what happens to them during their childhood years. The tragedy of serial killers lies in the dichotomy that they feel compelled to kill innocent strangers in order to express their own pain and anger. It is an existential manifestation to them.

lo más liberador del arte es que le hace a uno dudar de que exista.

Quiero irme de este mundo sin saber muchas cosas...

Two plus three is five, check the email, one plus seven is, check the email, eight, check the email, which comes to a total of, who the hell am I anyway, eighty five. This is how he dismembers his day, in the most painful way, moment by moment. A bigger man would just shoot it, put it out of its misery.

We're all going to die, aren't we?" Zoë asked. Phil shrugged. "It's not really a big deal, dying.

Our modern cities have become in large part agglomerations of bedroom apartments in which men and women spiritually wither away and their personalities become trivialized by the petty concerns of amusement, consumption, and small talk.

Philosophy is the prelude to death.

Not believing in God is a far more arduous affair than is generally imagined," Eagleton concludes.

wasn't it better to feel that when that chaos engulfed you, there was a benevolent God ready to help you through, rather than the emptiness of an indifferent universe?

he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this stuff going on inside you?" I said, "I don't know how you can walk down the street with nothing going on inside you.