Quotes About Responsibility

I know very well that I don't want to do anything: to do something is to create existence—and there's quite enough existence as it is.

No doctrine is more optimistic [than existentialism], since it declares that man's destiny lies within himself.

Man is fully responsible for his nature, choices and lifestyle.

I haven't any troubles, I have some money like a gentleman of leisure, no boss, no wife, no children; I exist, that's all. And that particular trouble is so vague, so metaphysical, that I am ashamed of it.

Outside nature, against nature, without excuse, beyond remedy, except what remedy I find within myself.

I am never any one of my attitudes, any one of my actions

She is dearer to me than life. But her suffering comes from within, and only she can rid herself of it. For she is free.

Unser Leben hängt davon ab, was wir aus dem machen, was aus uns gemacht wurde.

A right is nothing more than the other aspect of duty.

freedom only gives you something to be sorry for.

And every man ought to say to himself, "Am I really the kind of man who has the right to act in such a way that humanity might guide itself by my actions?" And if he does not say that to himself, he is masking his anguish. There is no question here of the kind of anguish which would lead to quietism, to inaction. It is a matter of a simple sort of anguish that anybody who has had responsibilities is familiar with.

You complain because things don't arrange themselves around you like a bouquet of flowers, without your taking the slightest trouble to do anything. But I have never asked as much: I wanted action. You know, when we played adventurer and adventuress: you were the one who had adventures, I was the one who made them happen.

what we might call everyday morality is exclusive of ethical anguish.

An existant can never justify the existence of another existant.

Das Leben hat a priori keinen Sinn. Ehe Sie leben, ist das Leben nichts; es liegt bei Ihnen, ihm einen Sinn zu verleihen, und der Wert ist nichts anderes als der Sinn, den Sie wählen.

This is what I mean when I say that man is condemned to be free: condemned, because he did not create himself, yet nonetheless free, because once cast into the world, he is responsible for everything that he does.

Existentialism's first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibility of his existence rest on him.

Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but he is also only what he wills himself to be after this thrust toward existence. Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. Such

Man is free rather than man is freedom.

I am not your king, impudent larva? Who then has created you? Orestes: You. But you should not have created me free.

There are two ways to go to the gas chamber, free and not free.

I felt that the success of the enterprise was in my hands: the moment had an obscure meaning which had to be trimmed and perfected ; certain motions had to be made, certain words spoken : I staggered under the weight of my responsibility. I started and saw nothing, I struggled in the midst of rites which were invented on the spot and tore them to shreds with my strong arms. At those times she hated me.

Din clipa în care libertatea a f?cut explozie în sufletul unui om, zeii nu mai pot face nimic împotriva lui. Asta-i o treab? omeneasc?, ÅŸi numai ceilalÅ£i oameni - numai ei - au c?derea s?-l lase în libertate sau s?-l strîngâ de gît.

The Other is the hidden death of my possibilities.