Quotes About Existentialism

This is the way I think the world will end—with general giggling by all the witty heads, who think it is a joke.' Kierkegaard.

nothing is so much to be regretted as the universe.

The world's just a hospice with fresh air.

When you gaze into the abyss, Nietzsche wrote, the abyss also gazes into you.

I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.

Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

He's a typical existentialist. And that's a contradiction in terms if ever there was one.

Soprattutto è necessario vivere drammaticamente ciò che è drammatico,

Crede che in fin dei conti tutti siano buoni e degni d'attenzione, e a me fa sorridere e mi riempie anche di una gran dolcezza, e un po' mi fa invidia, nella sua casa magica nel bosco, ché vuole bene a tutti, e io, invece, Taxi Driver ed esistenzialista.

There is nothing dreadful in life for the man who has truly comprehended that there is nothing terrible in not living.

One day the sun will die, one day the galaxy will die, one day the entire Universe will die. I'm not feeling too good myself. So, what have I learned over my long and weird life? Well, firstly, that there are two kinds of people, and I don't much care for either of them. Secondly, when faced with a difficult choice, either way is often best. Thirdly, always leave a party when people begin to play the bongos.

A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense.

The excessive speed of mundialization, the exacting demands of the God of consumerism and the to-and-fro swinging, from one period to another and from one domain to another, cause inner heartaches. People feel like individuals "with no sense of belonging" and characters "without qualities". ( "The church was no longer in the middle" )

When I'm considering this I find it helpful to quote the wisdom of my father, who once told me, "Who knows why the fuck anything happens?

It's always the easy way out, being an existential chicken. Not really being there. It's harder, it's riskier, to be present.

the abyss of non-belief, the vacuum, cannot be filled with stuff

All these lacrimal events and bouts of depersonalization were no doubt leading, I was then convinced, to the onset of schizophrenia. Indeed, the irony of my recent cardiac diagnosis was that it gave me an objective reason for my emotional turbulences and so was, in that sense, stabilizing: now I was reckoning with a specific existential threat, not just the vacuum of existence.

Nihilism, narcissism, and hedonism are natural results of the chaotic existential subjectivism popularized by the Left. If the hallmark of the baby boomers was rebellion, the hallmark of my generation is jadedness. Nothing really matters—we're cosmically alone.

I think, therefore I am... confused.

I definitely have that bug; I'd really like to do some auteur, existential pieces, darker films, something that's really reflective of life. But I also love the genre of rom-coms, and I don't see myself completely detaching from that.

BoJack Horseman' would make sense in the world of 'Rick and Morty,' but it's hard to imagine Rick and Morty in the world of BoJack.

Only death can cure the hip dilettante.

It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I'm not a real person and neither is anyone else.

I don't know that anything would be any good anywhere, so it's hard to gauge if this is better or worse, you know what I mean?" "Like: This place is miserable and I want to die, but I can't think of any place I'd rather be," I offered. He turned and stared at me, blue eyes mirroring the oval pool. "That's exactly what I mean." Get used to it, I thought.