Quotes About Existentialism

GeçmiÅŸ hiç yaÅŸanmam?? gibiydi... Yaln?zca bu an?n anlam? vard?, yaln?zca bu an onundu...

Nihilism and narcissism are not traits that any leading-edge can actually operate with.

I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.

The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.

The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."

Since I was both an atheist and an absurdist, I had decided that the most absurd thing I could do would be to develop an intimate relationship with the God I didn't believe in.

The title means exactly what the words say: NAKED Lunch—a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork.

I don't believe in the after life, although I'm bringing a change of underwear.

I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.

Ce n'était pas une vie; on existait, et c'est tout.

This isnt life, we just exist.

If I'm who I am because I'm who I am and you are who you are because you are who you are, then I'm who I am and you're who you are. If on the other hand, I am who I am because you're who you are, and if you're who you are because I'm who I am, then I am not who I am and you're not who you are....

I go out there. I'm out there every day. [Pause] There is nothing out there.

Johnny Watters bends down, sponge in his hand, tongue in your ear, he whispers, "How shall we live, Brian? How shall we live?

The born again nihilist has nothing to blame for their fall

Sartre said Hell is other people. I'd say Hell is other people's utopia.

Nowhilism: a rejection of the progress made in the past and ignorance of reality in the present

supongo que fue la sensación de estar siendo doble sujeto o doble gË™e·bry¯d-guma al mismo tiempo —una sensación desasosegante— lo que me hizo pensar más lejos

The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning.

But," she said to the priest, "I'm not dead yet. I've heard the angels farting on the ceiling.

I wanted to swallow myself by opening my mouth very wide and turning it over my head so that it would take in my whole body, and then the Universe, until all that would remain of me would be a ball of eaten thing which little by little would be annihilated: that is how I see the end of the world.

The main thing is you and I should exist, and that we should be you and I. Apart from that let everything go as it likes. The best order of things to my way thinking, is the one I was meant to be part of, and to hell with the most perfect of worlds if I am not in it. I would rather exist, even as an impudent argufier, than not exist at all.

Evil is in the existent as its innermost possibility of refusing existence