Existentialism Quotes

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I can't go on. I'll go on. — Samuel Beckett
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
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society. — Anita Brookner
I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology and existentialism. For… — Michel Foucault
John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said… — Jack Kerouac
The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism. It is part reality and part nightmare — Martin Esslin
Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you. — Delmore Schwartz
To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But who would do the desiring?… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Contrary to what our brains are telling us, there's no mystical force that imbues a winner with a streak of luck, nor is there a… — Charles Seife
I found earthquakes, even when I was in them, deeply satisfying, abruptly revealed evidence of the scheme in action. That the schemes could destroy the… — Joan Didion
All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A… — Albert Camus
It's a waste to chase the pipe dream of a magical tiny theory that allows us to make quick and detailed calculations about the future.… — Rudy Rucker
People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not… — Albert Camus
Let us do something, while we have the chance! ... Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent… — Samuel Beckett
Walking through the city streets... Is it by mistake or design? — Lana Del Rey
Memento mori-remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If… — Leo Tolstoy
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… — Jean Genet
Why does man create? Is it man's purpose on earth to express himself, to bring form to thought, and to discover meaning in experience? Or… — Bill Watterson
Let's say that life is this square of the sidewalk. We are born at this crack and we die at that crack. Now we find… — Bill Watterson
Our greatest challenge today is to couple conviction with doubt. By conviction, I mean some pragmatically developed faith, trust, or centeredness; and by doubt I… — Kirk J. Schneider

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