Quotes About Existentialism

human transcendence must cope with the same problem: it has to found itself, though it is prohibited from ever fulfilling itself.

Les plus brûlantes images sont froides au prix d'une sensation.

A mi alrededor se interrogaban sobre la suerte que amenazaba a millones de hombres, era también mi suerte; y a mí sólo me importaba una sonrisa, una sonrisa que no detendría las bombas atómicas, que no podía nada contra nada, ni por nadie; pero me ocultaba todo.

I wondered how many people managed to go on living when there was nothing to be hoped from within.

D'improvviso, l'avvenire esisteva; mi avrebbe cambiata in un'altra che avrebbe detto io e non sarebbe più stata me.

Recordemos que el hombre es trascendencia; lo que reclama, no lo reclama sino para superarlo.

I think he looks upon me as a mathematical constant whose disappearance would take him very much aback without in any way altering his destiny, since the heart of the matter lies elsewhere.

Mi ero voluta senza limiti ed ero informe come l'infinito. La cosa paradossale è che mi accorsi di questa deficienza proprio nel momento in cui scoprivo la mia individualità: la mia pretesa al'universale fin allora mi era apparsa ovvi, e invece, ecco che diveniva un tratto di carattere. Simone si interessa di tutto. Mi trovavo delimitata dal mio rifiuto dei limiti.

Not only do we assert that the existentialist doctrine permits the elaboration of an ethics, but it even appears to us as the only philosophy in which an ethics has its place.

The great enigma of human life is not suffering but affliction.

What conceivable reason could one have for seeking after righteousness in a world which so hated righteousness? Why do anything except eat and read and make love and provide for sleep that should be secure against disturbance by armed policemen? He never did find any particularly good reason. He simply went on.

Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

The specific character of despair is precisely this: it is unaware of being despair.

if god loves me, he is my mortal enemy

With every increase in the degree of consciousness, and in proportion to that increase, the intensity of despair increases: the more consciousness the more intense the despair.

This is the profound secret of innocence, that at the same time it is dread.

Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition either by not having known anxiety or by sinking under it.

Anxiety may be the dizziness of freedom.

Upravo loša savest može u?initi život zanimljivim.

The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match.

We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined.

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

There are two ways to go to the gas chamber, free and not free.