Quotes About Existentialism

There is no God, cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values — is, as it were, massacred because he feels himself of no account.

I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God.

Is there a man in the world who suffers as I do from the gross inadequacies of the human race?

To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.

I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

Put 'em on and be yourself, mister alienated loner steppenwolf bemused distant meta-izing technocrat rationalist fucking shithead.

People who like math. So I was trying to imagine—" "When seven billion die, and only some thousands remain, where do the seven billion souls go?" "Yes.

Some days I woke up and got out of bed and brushed my teeth like any normal human being; some days I woke up and lay in bed and looked the ceiling and wondered what the hell the point was of getting out of bed and brushing my teeth like any normal human being.

Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism.

The reason my games are chaotic is that the world is chaotic, not me. I don't aim for bad endings - they just naturally come out.

A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless' except if the person living it is also an existentialist and elects to call it so.

No. Tommy turned and headed toward the door. As he reached it he turned and said, I'm not fucked. The Sartre reader looked up from his book and said, We all are. We all are.

She's studying the Existentialists this month. Asked for a study day last week to kill an Arab on the beach.

And without guilt and dread, who am I?

Without the past, where is the guilt? And without the future, where is the dread? And without guilt and dread, who am I?

Nii et head aega õigupoolest ei olegi?» Dorrien muigas. «Ei.»

It [Foucault's Pendulum] can be very comforting for people of my generation, who ate disappointment for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

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.

I believed a person could consider himself a human being as long as he felt totally prepared to kill himself, to interfere in his own biography. It was this awareness that gave me the will to live. I checked myself — frequently — and felt I had the strength to die, and thus remained alive.

It was at this point that he realized that he felt no fear and that life had no value for him.

He thought incessantly, for he could not do otherwise; but he no longer took pleasure in his thoughts. To everything that they proposed to him in a whisper, he replied in his darkness: What is the use?

It's not easy having a paradox at the core of one's own being.

It's not nihilism is there's really no point to anything.