Quotes About Existentialism

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. There's your answer.

Tu dubiti se ci sia lecito di morire senza necessità: io ti domando se ci è lecito di essere infelici. ( Dialogo di Plotino e di Porfirio )

Thanks to God, I'm an atheist.

To become imperceptible oneself, to have dismantled love in order to become capable of loving. To have dismantled one's self in order finally to be alone and meet the true double at the other end of the line. A clandestine passenger on a motionless voyage. To become like everybody else; but this, precisely, is a becoming only for one who knows how to be nobody, to no longer be anybody. To paint oneself gray on gray.

To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.

Ve o hastal?k,ey Hamlet,o korkunç hastal?k belki düÅŸünce, belki içe bak?? deÄŸil midir?Yoksa sen,yapmak yerine,yapmak istemediklerini ve yapmak zorunda olduklar?n? düÅŸünen o adamlar familyas?n?n hüzünlü kahraman? deÄŸil misin? Yoksa sen kelimeleri, ki onlar diÅŸidir,eylemlere,ki onlar erkektir,tercih eden o yorgun ve kad?ns? ruhlardan deÄŸil misin?

When something happened that was everything to you you realized it was nothing to everything else.

Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully.

This life, gentlemen, is too short for our souls.

fighting an endless war and getting nowhere, surrounded by those who found simply being in the war enough to justify their existence. He

Humans have forgotten so much... It's so easy for us to live now that our lives have no meaning. So we start looking for something else, something more. Money. A bigger house. A hobby. Church.

He saw no beauty in the sunshine sifting down through the green leaves, nor did the azure vault of the sky whisper as of old and hint of cosmic vastness and secrets trembling to disclosure. Life was intolerably dull and stupid, and its taste was bad in his mouth.

Why should she want to live? We were doing nothing, we were going nowhere, we were nobody.

Me parece que no soy más que eso, preguntas sin respuesta.

I know a sentence that is still more terrifying, more terribly ambiguous than "I am alone," and it is, isolated from any other determining context, the sentence that would say to the other: "I am alone with you." Meditate on the abyss of such a sentence: I am alone with you, with you I am alone, alone in all the world.

the constancy of God in my life is called by other names, so that I quite rightly pass for an atheist

We human beings now have the power to exterminate ourselves; this seems to be the entire sum of our achievement.

The clock holds me nowhere. Nowhere. Nowhere. There is nothing else but now and the shifting depth of night. I sit at a table alone smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee and listening and surviving. I should not be here or anywhere. I should not be breathing or taking space.

First a piece of Irish wisdom: you should always listen to a bookie. For they have a saying, 'Money tells a good story,' and somewhere in their odds is a kind of science-fiction existentialism that decrees that we, the people, know everything. In other words, betting patterns often make for good, unconscious soothsaying.

I'm not religious. I'm not an atheist. Would I say I'm an agnostic? Possibly. But I would say the collective unconscious is something I'm much more interested in.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

Modern man has both feet firmly planted in mid-air