Quotes and Sayings About Existentialism
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It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
-- Albert Camus -
There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
-- Albert Camus -
This work is an attempt to understand the time I live in.
-- Albert Camus -
We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
-- Anton Chekhov -
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
-- Carl Sagan -
We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
-- Charles Bukowski -
Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.
-- David Ives -
Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.
-- Delmore Schwartz -
Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.
-- Ernest Becker -
the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith
-- Ernest Becker -
The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt -
Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Existentialism is possible only in a world where God is dead or a luxury, and where Christianity is dead.
-- Gabriel Vahanian -
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still to see oneself living at great speed, right up to the moment of death.
-- Jean Genet -
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre -
I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre -
Don't you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre -
Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre -
I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre -
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre -
The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.
-- Jerry Saltz
