Quotes About Existentialism

Mi vida ha estado llena de verguenza. La verdad es que no tengo la más remota idea de lo que es vivir como un ser humano.

Me pregunto si soy feliz.

Cependant, à ce moment, j'étais encore incapable de donner leur sens réel à ces mots : « Je veux mourir. » Une idée d'amusement s'y cachait.

Eu sou um gato, de Soseki,

Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be like to live the life of a human being.

There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'" "The mood will pass, sir.

The God I know is the source of reality, rather than morality; the source of 'what is' rather than the source of 'what ought to be'.

Ele tinha a impressão de ser um pedaço de gelo que as correntes levavam para onde queriam. Mantinha a cabeça virada para a margem. Olhava a charneca na aurora onde começava a nascer e a errar a bruma. Respirava com dificuldade.

No such thing as nothing. So it's gotta be a something, don't it?

In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death in the face, and by death I mean death as we live it today: without God, without hope of salvation. Death as the abrupt and absurd end of life

They have trapped Blue into doing nothing, into being so inactive as to reduce his life to almost no life at all. Yes, says Blue to himself, that's what it feels like: like nothing at all. He feels like a man who has been condemned to sit in a room and go on reading a book for the rest of his life. This is strange enough - to be only half alive at best, seeing the world only through words, living only through the lives of others.

Baudelaire: Il me semble que je serais toujours bien là où je ne suis pas. In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more bluntly: Wherever I am not is the place where I am myself. Or else, taking the bull by the horns: Anywhere out of the world.

What to do when the world was on fire and you didn't have the equipment to put out the flames, when the fire was in you as much as it was around you, and no matter what you did or did not do, your actions would change nothing?

He olvidado qué era, dijo. Yo también, dijo Camier. Yo nunca lo supe, dijo Mercier.

Sometimes it's the nihilism that makes life worth living.

Self-affirmation, for Tillich, is the paradox of "participation in something which transcends the self" (165).

The most basic question of all cannot be answered: Who are you?

The worst thing I do is to exist. When I think of that I understand A human's greatest crime is to be born!

I would like to know just what kind of nothing I am

Perhaps nothing had happened. Perhaps everything had happened.

At the time of this writing, I do not know whether I will live much longer, and you don't know what I'm talking about.

He was absurd, but then who isn't.

Seventeenth-century philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote: "The eternal silence of the infinite spaces terrifies me.