Quotes About Existentialism

Have you realized that dying is the only way to truly live?

Marie - Franz … Yine de orospunun biriyim iÅŸte ben! B?çaklayabilirim kendimi! Ah! Ne Dünya! Herkesin can? cehenneme, erkek, diÅŸi!

MARIE [Alone, after apause.] Whata bitch I am. I could stab myself. - Oh, what a world! Everything goes to hell anyhow, man and woman alike.

Woyzeck, I shudder when I think that the earth takes a whole day to rotate. What a waste of time! And where's it going to end? Woyzeck, the very sight of a millwheel depresses me.

Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

Oh my life is so awful, it's just so awful to be me, you don't know what it's like waking every morning and finding the whole horror of being yourself still there.

What we can see determines what we choose. Good is the distant source of light, it is the unimaginable object of our desire. Our fallen nature knows only its name and its perfection. That is the idea which is vulgarized by existentialists and linguistic philosophers when they make good into a mere matter of personal choice. It cannot be defined, not because it is a function of our freedom, but because we do not know it.

Is your father writing a book? said Alison. No. He's existing. Some people live, like the rest of us, like the people in your plays. He just exists.

I'd like to to know what it is he's after, I mean, is it an experience or a thought, is it something you'd put in a book, or die for, or die of?

Yes, I am free, she said to herself, but it's not like ordinary freedom, it's being in hell, a brilliant lucid hell.

Wittgenstein has created a void into which neo-Kantianism, existentialism, utilitarianism have made haste to enter.

It was a voyage into the absurd.

One must constantly meditate upon the absurdities of chance, a subject even more edifying than the subject of death.

I can't see why anyone would want to go on living when they've got like that. Whatever can he look forward to?' 'The next drink.' 'Well, you would! I think old age is awful. I hope I'll never be old.

There's only one thing the matter and that's everything.

I like the idea of a black sun; like a black hole in space, sucking everything into darkness, where we came from and where we're heading

Schopenhauer was right: Life has to be about disillusionment stumbling inexorably towards the totally fucked.

My life has consisted of challenging authority, which I was taught as a young girl. Life is only noise between two abysmal silences. Silence before birth, silence after death.

There are so many games where you fight aliens or zombies, and they have very high-fidelity graphics, but they don't ask the question of why the events are happening.

I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all

My biggest fear is death because I don't think I'm going anywhere. And since I don't think that, and I don't have a belief... I'm married to someone who has the belief, so she knows she's going somewhere.