Quotes About Existentialism

We did not care if we died today or only tomorrow, and there were times when we cursed the morning that found us still alive.

Hell is other people," said the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, and he wasn't even a fat guy.

Why go on? I mean, why record all this? Wouldn't it be better to surrender it to oblivion for all time? For those who were there certainly don't have to read it. And the others, and those who will come later? What if they read it only to enjoy something strange and uncanny and to make themselves feel more alive? Does it take an apocalypse to do that? Or a descent into the underworld?

Even manifestly senseless suffering and death can have a meaning, can acquire a meaning. a hidden meaning.

Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.

Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.

I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.

I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise." (p. 248)

Im interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.

I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.

Ich finde sie lustig, ihre heutigen Tänze, lustig zum Schauen, diese existentialistische Hopserei, wo jeder für sich allein tanzt, seine eignen Faxen schwingt, verwickelt in die eignen Beine, geschüttelt wie von einem Schüttelfrost, alles etwas epileptisch, aber lustig, sehr temperamentvoll, muß ich sagen, aber ich kann das nicht.

What's the point? was my attitude. We're all just going to die and then NOT be let on the boat.

I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world. These times have to be lived through: there is nothing to be done with them.

If we were not afraid of death, I do not believe that the idea of immortality would ever have arisen.

Such a notion made it virtually impossible to enjoy life! And this, "If God did not exist, man would

the problem of evil is the guiding force of modern thought.

Concerning the death of Gertrude Stein: she came out of a deep coma to ask her companion Alice Toklas, 'Alice, Alice, what is the answer?' Her companion replied, 'There is no answer.' Gertrude Stein continued, 'Well, then, what is the question?' and fell back dead.

desde el punto de vista lógico está más cerca de la verdad el que, lisa y llanamente, se pone a lloriquear bajo las estrellas, espantado por lo absurdo de la situación, que el que, dándoselas de heroico o de creyente en la historicidad, trata, a pesar de todo, de sacar adelante una familia, o de ganar la faja de honor de la SADE.

D]ie Urenkel der Nihilisten [...] Was, wenn ihnen Bibel, Grundgesetz und Strafrecht nie mehr gegolten hätten als Anleitung und Regelbuch zu einem Gesellschafsspiel? [...] Wenn wir ihre Gründe nicht mehr verstünden, weil es keine gibt?

The depressed person is a radical, sullen atheist.

I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.

Man is left a conscious Something in the midst, so far as he knows, of Nothing: with no resources save the exploring of his own consciousness.

Y la vida no es noble, ni buena, ni sagrada.