Quotes About Existentialism

Ma subjectivité et le Créateur, c'est trop pour un cerveau.

O, if only, instead of being a hell, the universe had been an immense celestial anus!

Hélas! qu'est-ce donc que le bien et le mal! Est-ce une même chose par laquelle nous témoignons avec rage nôtre impuissance, et la passion d'atteindre à l'infini par les moyens même les plus insensés?

To respond to the question of the meaning of life by simply reproducing yourself is to shift the question to the next generation. To not respond at all, or to not even try, isn't that the worst kind of cowardice?

The point is there ain't no point.

I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'

I haven't got the goddamnedest idea of what the hell you're talking about. Kierkeguard, what's that? Sounds like deodorant, which is to say that the whole thing smells as far as I'm concerned.

Had Beta been French, perhaps he would've been an existentialist, probably though that would not have satisfied him. He smiled contemptuously at mental speculations, for he remembered seeing philosophers fighting over garbage in the concentration camps. Human thought had no significance; subterfuge and self-deception were easy to decipher: all that really counted was the movement of matter.

El verdadero opio del pueblo es la creencia en la nada después de la muerte; el gran consuelo que trae pensar que no vamos a ser juzgados por nuestras traiciones, avaricia, cobardía y crímenes

where is here, when is now??

I thought 'Fight Club' was great as David Fincher's version.

I suppose for a very long time I've been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive.

Je n'aime personne et je ne fous rien, je ne veux pas tenter de me distraire, ou de m'occulter la vérité. La vie est une saloperie, et chaque seconde de lucidité est un supplice.

For it is in the field where meaning is constitutive that man's freedom reaches its highest point. There too his responsibility is greatest. There there occurs the emergence of his existential subject, finding out for himself that he has to decide for himself what he is to make of himself.

Yalom wrote in Existential Psychotherapy, our awareness of death helps us live more fully—and with less, not more, anxiety.

It's a confusing sort of thing. he said. What is? Life.

O senhor escute meu coração, pegue no meu pulso. O senhor avista meus cabelos brancos... Viver - não é? - é muito perigoso. Porque ainda não se sabe. Porque aprender-a-viver é que é o viver, mesmo. O sertão me produz, depois me enguliu, depois me cuspiu do quente da boca... O senhor crê minha narração?

Tell me what matters,' BZ said. 'Nothing,' Maria said.

When we have found all the meanings and lost all the mysteries, we will be alone, on an empty shore.

And there you have the absurdity.

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.

Nothing is an absolute reality, all is permitted.

Ilustra esta declaración con las palabras de Jacques Madaule: "Sé que moriré, pero no lo creo".2