Quotes About Existentialism

Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being.

Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?

And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.

The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.

Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, I can't do anything to change events anyway.

Time to get up time to get washed time to have lunch time to go to bed. What's the point if I never get up again what difference would it make? I might just as well be dead. You might just as well be dead. We all just as well be dead! This isn't living. This is…

I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can't do anything to change events anyway.

You know, Vik, you're amazingly human at times. (Alix) I know. But I wonder if the feelings I have are real or just electrical stimulations in my cortex that simulate human emotion. I wish I knew if they were real or imagined. (Vik) And that makes you completely human, sweetie. We all have those doubts. (Alix)

I really don't have to die?" – Abigail "Are we going to be doing this all night? Should I book us a reservation at Redundancy?" – Choo Co La Tah

You don't know what life is. You know nothing.

I found motherhood a crash course in existentialism (what is my purpose in life, am I mistress or slave of my destiny, when the hell do I get some sleep?) and [the book] ROOM was the result.

Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.

Robin turned and looked straight into her. "What's life for?" "I don't know." "I don't either. But I don't think it's about winning.

If life is a performance, and I am not an actor, am I supposed to lie down and die?

If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.

If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it to the lowest possible price?

Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?

when we perfect 3-D copiers and they reproduce tissue, we'll have a million Marilyns walking around with no souls...

La vida no es más que eso, indicó el viejo analista meneando la cabeza. Un juego tras otro . Y la muerte es el mayor juego de todos.

I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.