Quotes About Existentialism

Jeg kommer netop nu fra et Selskab, hvor jeg var Sjælen; Vittigheder strømmede ud fra min Mund, alle loe, beundrede mig - men jeg gik, ja den Tankestreg bør være ligesaa lang som Jordbanens Radier ------------------------------- hen og ville skyde mig selv.

Anxiety may be compared with dizziness. He whose eye happens to look down into the yawning abyss becomes dizzy. But what is the reason for this? It is just as much in his own eyes as in the abyss . . . Hence, anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

AÅŸa cum filozofia începe cu îndoiala, o via?? care s? poat? fi numit? uman? începe cu ironia.

To despair over oneself, in despair to will to be rid of oneself—this is the formula for all despair.

Only in much fear and trembling is a human being able to speak with God, in much fear and trembling

Ningún caballero de la fe puede ayudar a otro. O bien se convierte el mismo Particular en caballero de la fe, pues cargó con la paradoja, o bien no llega nunca a serlo. En esa esfera resulta impensable cualquier compañerismo.

Why even try to understand the human condition if humanity revealed itself as grotesque, dark, not worth it.

If your denial of death is sufficiently explicit and persuasive that you believe death isn't real, then what you deny isn't death but the significance of life.

he had so long ceased to have any intercourse with the world, that he looked upon himself as dead. The

But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain

Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.

There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.

When we dead awaken ... we see that we have never lived.

Larry Grobel senses there are no answers in life, only questions. Good ones.

When I'm lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death. And neither one particularly appeals to me.

The answer is there is no answer.

It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.

It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning

..and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was

Only a complete alcoholic can think life is funny ... any life!.

The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is.

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.

Muichi Motsu: "Hold nothing": If you meet Buddha, kill Buddha. If you meet the patriarchs, kill the patriarchs. Free of all, bound by nothing, you live your life simply as it is