Quotes About Existentialism

Perhaps our role on this planet is not to worship God but to create Him.

As the French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre observed, several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.

There I sat, in the wreckage of my apartment, in the wreckage of my life – no love, no prospects, a gnawing sense of existential futility along with the certainty that a better life was being lived by everyone else

J'éprouvais alternativement la nécessité de ressentir l'intensité de la vie, et un sentiment profond de vacuité. Alors, tout me paraissait dérisoire et absurde.

I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement.

Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?

There is no God. There's no heaven. There's no hell. There are no angels. When you die, you go in the ground, the worms eat you.

Thank God I'm an atheist.

I don't believe in God. I believe something is happening, I'm not sure what it is.

Thank God, I am still an atheist.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.

Just to say "Well, God is dead" in one breath is to say, in another, that nothing means anything. This is the moment of nihilism. Nihilism is the affirmation of meaninglessness.

Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing.

By night an atheist half-believes in God.

we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.

God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?

Existentialism is possible only in a world where God is dead or a luxury, and where Christianity is dead.

It is only thanks to God that I'm an atheist

There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.

We exist within the question of God.

Where God's presence is no longer a tenable proposition and where his absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable.

I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me.