Quotes About Existentialism

die anderen ist. Und daß es so

If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.

Climate change is often the first thing I think about it in the morning, and the last thing I think about before I go to bed. It is not something that escapes that my mind, so inevitably, I had to kind of express that existential terror through art and music. My hope is to channel that confusion and energy into something good.

So 'Nier Automata' feels like a story about androids but no, the main theme of 'Automata' is human.

because most people just exist, and that's all. I don't know if he's right, but I do know that I spent a long time existing, and now, I intend to live.

Here is the end point of modernity: the autonomous, freely choosing individual, finding meaning in no one but himself.

Nothing was real about life under communism. The state's control was total. What led Popkov to seek fellowship with Christians was reading The Stranger, the celebrated 1942 novel by Albert Camus, the French existentialist. Though Camus was an atheist, the novel compelled the young Russian living in an atheist state to look for Christ.

La melancolía le permite a Kierkegaard ser él mismo, Convierte a la persona en el corazón de la realidady rechaza toda mediación entre el individuo y el mundo que lo rodea, un mundo que es absurdo y, además, aburrido. En 1845 escribió: "¿Cuál es mi enfermedad? Melancolía. ¿Dónde se asienta esta enfermedad? En el poder de la imaginación".

Thought, when it is cut off from action, is sick. This sickness is sometimes called mythology, mysticism, idealism. Today it is called existentialism.

nous risquons maintenant de mourir par excès de moyen et par absence de fins.

Hundert gute Gründe, mich auf der Stelle umzubringen 1. Die beste Art, um sicherzugehen, dass ich nicht schon tot bin. 2. Die letzte Volkszählung wird dann nicht mehr stimmen. 3. Unter der Erde wartet man nur noch auf mich, um mit dem Feiern anzufangen. (...)

Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.

Hence Kierkegaard and Nietszche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Kafka was a master at the gruesome task of picturing people who do not use their potentialities and therefore lose their sense of being persons. The chief character in The Trial and in The Castle has no name—he is identified only by an initial, a mute symbol of one's lack of identity in one's own right.

The novel is a haunting and subtly terrifying picture of the modern man who is truly a "stranger" to himself.

Jis vert? mane skaityti Prust?, Tostoj?, ir Dostojevsk?,- pareišk? vargšel?, nužvelgusi mus šird? verian?iu žvilgsniu. - Kas gi su manim dabar bus?

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

Poate c? tocmai asta c?ut?m prin via??, nimic altceva decât asta, cea mai mare durere cu putin?? pentru a deveni noi înÅŸine înainte de-a muri.

We people are just worms on top of it, worms on its fat, revolting carcass, eating its entrails and all its poisons … Nothing can help us, we were born rotten … There you have it!

On a bien le droit d'avoir une opinion sur sa propre mort.

Entre el penis i les matemàtiques, senyor Baryton, no hi ha res! Res! Hi ha el buit!

My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer.

It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists

6.44 : It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists.