Quotes About Existentialism

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

I don't need God in order to love my neighbor.

If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop-room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

Nothingness lies coiled at the heart of being like a worm

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.

My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire.

She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.

Life's too short for doubt, and yet too long for faith.

Estaba solo, era ajeno al mundo. Sintió que siempre había estado a un lado, mirando pasar automóviles, personas, sucesos.

One morning you wake up and are afraid you are going to live. In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that I was already dead.

I am a stranger in a world I never made

I'll never know how to live, will you?

I don't know what's the point of it, being

I have no needs. No country, no continent, no hope. I sit in blackness where I once lived. In magic, the only force I recognize. What is it? a face cries, skittering away. All that's left, I reply

Three people in the snow getting rid of themselves breath by breath

American Nihilism is a mood; a mood of moodiness; a vague disquiet. It is Nihilism without the abyss.

The self is the modern substitute for the soul.

Certainty is not to be had. But as we learn this we become not more moral but more resigned. We become nihilists.

Zaratustra no puede morir, sería lo nunca visto.