Quotes About Existentialism

If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.

If I was dead, I wouldn't know I was dead. That's the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.

Inexorable etrangete! D'une vie mal defendue, rouler jusqu'aux des vifs du bonheur. How inexorably strange! In this shaky life, to throw even the quick dice of happiness. -Rene Char

We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.

So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.

For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.

And to kill time while awaiting death, I smoke slender cigarettes thumbing my nose to the gods.

Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually.

The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.

Ik wist toen nog niet dat de dood voorwerp kan worden van een blinde drang, van een honger zoals de liefde. Ik had niet die nachten voorzien waarin ik mijn riem om mijn dolk zou wikkelen om mezelf te dwingen tweemaal na te denken alvorens mij ervan te bedienen. Alleen Arrianos is doorgedrongen tot het geheim van dat roemloze gevecht tegen de leegte, de dorheid, de vermoeienis, de walging van het bestaan die uitloopt op het verlangen te sterven.

Sólo me diferencio de los muertos en que me está dado asfixiarme todavía un momento más.

La libertad, hija y madre de la racionalidad y del espíritu crítico, pone sobre los hombros del ser humano una pesada carga: tener que decidir por sí mismo qué le conviene y qué lo perjudica, cómo hacer frente a los innumerables retos de la existencia, si la sociedad funciona como debería ser o si es preciso transformarla.

No, life had ceased to be logical, and therefore nothing was absurd. It was life: one had to accept it as it was or kill oneself.

I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off forever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.

You were not put on this earth just to get in touch with God.

Those are the feelings you feel when you're out there and enough dark energy possesses you and you think, "Who the fuck am I? What happened to me?

Existentia nunquam ad essentiam rei pertinent.

Gerstenfeld somt eerst enkele redenen op waarom het leven in het algemeen niet de moeite waard is geleefd te worden, mensen zijn wolven op twee benen, en gaat dan in op zijn eigen situatie, die niet bijzonder dramatisch is maar die hij kennelijk toch voor uitzichtloos houdt: lusteloosheid en weerzin spelen hem parten.

I have no idea where I'm going but here's the real question: What am I doing here in the first place?

Futilitarianism.