Quotes About Existentialism

I said nothing. After all, you really should understand a remark before you respond to it, and I didn't. Clearly Jackie was in a philosophical mood—but whether the evening would turn toward Aristotle or existentialism, I couldn't tell from her comment on Benny's Normalness. And as the best philosophers will tell you, the rest is silence anyway, so I kept quiet.

I mean, shouldn't there be more? There's not even enough to add up to anything except another wage slave so dumb I even pay my taxes. And

Derrida is my absolute god!

Is life a happy sadness? Or a sad happiness?

I didn't study; I live.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

My biggest fear of death is to come back reincarnated

The days are long and quiet. They accumulate. There is no end to them. Picard walks the lanes around his fields. He broods. He writes—long, long books about great men and great deeds. Wine is made, and drunk. Winter comes, then spring, then harvest, then another deep cold winter. The cycle is endless. The huge clock ticks in the hall, eating time. His mind goes around in circles. What shall I do, now? Where do I go? Who am I?

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

The tragic element in modern man, not ignore the meaning of his life, but it bothers him less and less.

L'élément tragique pour l'homme moderne, ce n'est pas qu'il ignore le sens de sa vie, mais que ça le dérange de moins en moins.

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.

To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.

Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end.

Porque no sé dónde estoy, porque he olvidado que estoy en la habitación y espero que me llamen a comer, porque me he olvidado de mí mismo, porque ya no me llega nada desde fuera que me indique dónde se encuentra mi cuerpo y porque ningún ruido me retiene, los pensamientos me llevan de aquí para allá en tierra de nadie; no son pensamientos elaborados por mí, sino pensamientos que surgen en mí.

I was overtaken by a dread of utter solitude in the great turning world.

Nothing is whole, not for too damned long. The world is half night.

In this particular lifestyle the motto is "Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying," but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory.

I didn't get anything from holding onto those handles," Rick said. "Mercer talked to me but it didn't help. He doesn't know any more than I do. He's just an old man climbing a hill to his death." "Isn't that the revelation?" Rick said, "I have that revelation already.

Entering the phone booth, he did a phone thing. Ring-ring-ring.

And who am I? The wrong person; I can tell you that.