Quotes About Existentialism

The horror is this: In the end, it is simply a picture of empty meaningless blackness. We are alone. There is nothing else.

The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever, and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else.

we think there are beings like ourselves around us and instead there is nothing but ice and stones speaking a strange language; we are on the point of greeting a friend but our arm falls inert, the smile dies away because we are completely alone.

What a terrible mistake, thought Drogo, perhaps everything is like that — we think there are beings like ourselves around us and instead there is nothing but ice and stones speaking a strange language; we are on the point of greeting a friend but our arm falls inert, the smile dies away because we are completely alone.

I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.

Becketts work is an embarrassment to the Void.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.

I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action

What are we doing here, that is the question.

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

For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.

Do you always believe in the life to come? Mine was always that.

And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?

I wasn't lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.

I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife.

Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.