Quotes About Existentialism

I am the man who comes and goes between the bar and the telephone booth. Or, rather:that man is called 'I' and you know nothing else about him, just as this station is called only 'station' and beyond it there exists nothing except the unanswered signal of a telephone ringing in a dark room of a distant city.

We can become, in other words, people for whom the romantic or existentialist dream might eventually begin to come at least partially true. But this is not, or not for the most part, something straightforwardly and completely given in baptism and in initial Christian faith.

In the street, he turned west and walked against a tide of blank-eyed, gum-chewing faces. A taxi went over a manhole cover, clink-clank. Steam was rising from an excavation at the corner. The world was like a puzzle with half the pieces missing. What was the pont of all these drab buildings, this dirty sky?

Breton considered suicide the truest art, though life seemed hardly worth the trouble to discard.

The four ultimate concerns are death, isolation, freedom, and meaninglessness

Existence is one with self-consciousness; existence with self-consciousness is existence simply. If I do not know that I exist, it is all one whether I exist or not.

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

A square meter of earth, Dostoevski said; if all you had was a square meter of earth to stand on, and nothing around you but impenetrable fog, living would be preferable to dying.

Good afternoon, Suzy Q. Are you ladies all right?" "Nobody's all right, Officer. Nobody's all wrong, nobody's all right. We all of us stuck in the middle." He

I was just going to stand here and watch it happen. I wasn't going to say a fucking thing. Why? Because what did it matter? What did any of it matter?

One looks at death, always moves toward it, but until the last denies its existence.

What did I brood on, sitting there in the classic pose with my elbows on my knees and my chin on my hands? We do not need to go to the Greeks, our tragic predicament is written out on rolls of lavatory paper.

Death, he felt, was only a kind of warning rather than a desperate and permanent end.

why we fear death... life is more scary.....

Why is such a bad thing to die?

I have no interest in dying.But I have to. I have to care one day about things that don't matter to me.

Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.

If I was to say I had a life, that would be a lie.

Every act he performed was self-haunted and synthetic.

Tutto dovrebbe essere qualcosa. Ma non lo è mai. È la natura dell'esistenza.

You've said good-by to everyone but yourself. How does a person say good-bye to himself? It's a juicy existential dilemma.