Quotes About Existentialism

I am Jack's wasted life.

Querría morirme en este mismo instante. No soy nada comparado con Tyler. Estoy desamparado.

Qué es peor, el infierno o nada?

A book is a suicide postponed.

Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?

Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?

Who hasn't asked himself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?

Existentialists believe there is no purpose to life other than pleasure, but pleasure drifts like cigarette smoke into melancholy and ennui. A glass of absinthe and you are living the life. Drink a bottle and you're dead.

Un tom?r j?s p?r?em d?vaina tukšuma saj?ta — lai ko j?s dar?tu, nekam nav noz?mes. Tieši tas noteikti ir divdesmit? gadsimta mor?l? bankrota c?lonis.

The cultural problem was 'the fallacy of insignificance', and it was a philosophical form of this fallacy that had somehow landed existentialism in a cul de sac.

I've read Joyce and Sartre and Beckett and the rest, and every atom in me rejects what they say. They strike me as liars and fools. I don't think they're dishonest so much as hopelessly tired and defeated.

Lei, disse, era cattolico, vero? No. Anglicano? No. Sono esistenzialista. Davvero? Ma, uh… io parlavo di… religione. Lo so. Anch'io. Be', ma… non credo di aver mai sentito parlare di questa setta. È nuova? Non proprio. Chi l'ha fondata? Un danese, un certo Kierkegaard. E credono nel potere di redenzione di Gesù Cristo? Kierkegaard di sicuro ci credeva.

In The Secret Life we see the Outsider cut off from other people by an intelligence that ruthlessly destroys their values, and prevents him from self-expression through his inability to substitute new values. His problem is Ecclesiastes' 'Vanitatum vanitas'; nothing is worth doing.

Avevo letto da qualche parte la parola 'nichilismo' e a scuola chiesi al mio insegnante di inglese cosa significasse. Significa non credere in niente mi rispose, e subito seppi di aver trovato un nome per il mio stato d'animo. Non era solo mancanza di qualcosa in cui credere, era non credere, di fatto, in niente.

For the Outsider, the world into which he has been born is always a world without values.. Unless he can evolve a set of values that will correspond to his own higher intensity of purpose, he may as well throw himself under a bus.

A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.

Once an individual's search for a meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering.

There is nothing in this world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is meaning in one's life.

Such widespread phenomena as depression, aggression and addiction are not understandable unless we recognize the existential vacuum underlying them.

El sufrimiento, en cierto modo, deja de ser sufrimiento cuando encuentra un sentido...».

Now we can understand Schopenhauer when he said that mankind was apparently doomed to vacillate eternally between the two extremes of distress and boredom.

In contrast to most of the existentialist schools of thought, logotherapy is in no way pessimistic; but it is realistic in that it faces the tragic triad of human existence: pain, death, and guilt.

But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease. It may well be that interpreting the first in terms of the latter motivates a doctor to bury his patient's existential despair under a heap of tranquilizing drugs. It is his task, rather , to pilot the patient through his existential crises of growth and development.