Quotes About Existentialism

I live always in the present. I know nothing of the future and no longer have a past. The former weighs me down with a thousand possibilities, the latter with the reality of nothingness.

Duas vezes jurei ser O que julgo que sou, Só para desconhecer Que não sei para onde vou.

Today, suddenly, I reached an absurd but unerring conclusion. In a moment of enlightenment, I realized that I'm nobody, absolutely nobody.

I'm liberated and lost. I feel. I shiver with fever. I'm I.

La vida práctica siempre me ha parecido el menos cómodo de los suicidios.

Tenho a náusea física da humanidade vulgar, que é, aliás, a única que há. E capricho, ás vezes, em aprofundar essa náusea, como se pode provocar um vomito para aliviar a vontade de vomitar.

I want the good, I want the bad, and in the end I want nothing. I toss in bed, uncomfortable on my right side, on my left side, And on my consciousness of existing, I'm universally uncomfortable, metaphysically uncomfortable, But what's even worse is my headache. That's more serious than the meaning of the universe.

Nunca he encarado el suicidio como una solución, porque odio la vida por amor a ella.

We were born into the midst of metaphysical anguish, moral anxiety and political disquietude

a disdain full of disgust for those who don't realize that the only reality is each man's soul, and that everything else - the exterior world and other people - is but an unaesthetic nightmare

Let us render everything absurd and adorn our sterile hours with more futilities.

Nasci num tempo em que a maioria dos jovens tinham perdido a crença em Deus, pela mesma razão que os seus maiores a tinham tido — sem saber porquê.

Alguien conoce las fronteras de su alma, para poder decir, yo soy yo?

I do not sleep. I half-exist.

I am me again, exactly as I am not.

It requires prodigious intelligence to be reduced to anguish by a day of lowering skies.

I was a citizen. At the heart of my thoughts I wasn't I.

I feel this because I feel nothing. I think this because this is nothing. Nothing, nothing, part of the night and the silence and what I share with them of vacancy, of negativity, of in-betweenness, a gap between me and myself, something forgotten by some god or other … 442

Desceu sobre nós a mais profunda e a mais mortal das secas dos séculos - a do conhecimento íntimo da vacuidade de todos os esforços e da vaidade de todos os propósitos.

I feel nostalgia for the possibility of one day feeling nostalgia, regardless of how absurd that nostalgia may seem.

Fernando Pessoa

Mas as paisagens sonhadas são apenas fumos de paisagens conhecidas e o tédio de as sonhar também é quase tão grande como o tédio de olharmos para o mundo.

I lift my eyes and look at the stars, which make no sense at all.

If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.