Quotes About Existentialism

I do not believe in an afterlife although I am bringing a change of underwear.

I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

One day you will be the only one in the room not living.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Life sucks, then you die.

the sense of separateness from the rest of the world, as if everyone else knew the part they were playing but I'd never been given a script.

Religion, history, and philosophy are just fictions we've invented to explain our meaningless world.

I have come to believe that in the life of every man, late or soon, there is a moment when he knows beyond whatever else he might understand, and whether he can articulate the knowledge or not, the terrifying fact that he is alone, and separate, and that he can be no other than the poor thing that is himself.

Tyranny is just what one can develop a taste for, since it so happens that man prefers to wallow in fear rather than to face the anguish of being himself.

When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What's your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act." And they do calm down.

Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.

Sînt unii oameni atît de prosti, ca de le-ar aparea vreo idee la suprafata creierului ea s-ar sinucide din groaza de singuratate.

How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.

Without the idea of suicide I would have surely killed myself.

Personal imi dau demisia din omenire.

At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j'ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning.

Nu pot fi eu insumi decat daca ma inalt pana la furie sau cobor pana la descurajare: la nivelul meu obisnuit, ignor faptul ca exist.

I long to be free—desperately free. Free as the stillborn are free.

What is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures?

My vision of the future is so exact that if I had children, I should strangle them here and now.

Mi-am pierdut, în contact cu oamenii, toat? prospeÅ£imea nevrozelor. (Silogismele amaraciunii)

I believe in the salvation of humanity, in the future of cyanide...

Our power resides in our incapacity to know how alone we are.

God does not read.