Quotes About Existentialism

wishing there was a Personal God in all this impersonal matter.

Ä°kimiz de s?rtüstü yatm?? tavana bak?yor, Tanr?'n?n hayat? bu kadar kederli ve gönülsüz k?larken neyle uÄŸraÅŸt???n? düÅŸünüyorduk.

Did you ever stand on a street corner in American at five o'clock in the morning? I did.

You dont have to know a soul to know what I know --- to expect what I'm expecting --- to feel yourself alive and dying in your chest every minute of the livelong day --- When you're young you wanta cry, when you're old you wanta die. But that's too deep for you now, Ti mon Pousse

the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams

What are you going to do with yourself, Ed? I asked. I don't know, he said. I just go along. I dig life. He repeated it, following Dean's line. He had no direction. He sat reminiscing about that night in Chicago and the hot coffee cakes in the lonely room.

Tanr?, Ben YaÅŸanan?m, dediÄŸinde bütün bu vedalaÅŸmalar?n neye dair olduÄŸunu unutmuÅŸ olaca??z.

Así es la noche, y eso produce. No puedo ofrecer más que mi propia confusión.

Alexander Trocchi was an existentialist. He was looking at an alienated artist in the post-war period. It's modern because it applies now as well.

Albert Camus did not know he was summing up modern photojournalism when he wrote:"Will I kill myself or have a cup of coffee

Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don't know why, and if we do find out why, it's decades later and knowing why doesn't matter any more.

The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.

If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?

What is hell? 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.

It is not our fault that the world is bad, and we do not want to die changing it. We want to live- that is all.

Sarte was right, Hell is other people

my favourite emotions include 'brief calmness in good weather' and 'i am the only person alive

as a teenager i experienced existential despair as an unsexy sensation of repressed orgasm in the chest; today i experience existential despair as a distinct sensation of wanting to lecture you on how i am better than you, without crushing your hopes and dreams

It's depressing that people are different. Everyone should be one person, who should then kill itself in hand-to-hand combat.

I'm not looking ahead joyfully to the rest of my life or the future of the human race. I've always written about man as an animal species among other animals, competing for limited resources. Our population is exploding. Our environment is dying. Science has debunked God.

I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.