Existentialism Quotes

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Most of what happens in the world is just a consequence of natural, universal laws- laws that apply everywhere and to everything, with no special… — PZ Myers
A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this. — Rudy Rucker
Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more. — Haruki Murakami
What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in the… — Samuel Beckett
I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's quite a job… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel. — 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
It is a confession that we do not have such a prodigious head as is required to answer the question what is happening, that we… — John D. Caputo
Even if things are as bad as they could possible be, and as meaningless, then matters of truth are themselves indifferent; we may as well… — Annie Dillard
No one can advise and help you, no one. There is only one way: go within. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Some men become what they were born for. — Sheenagh Pugh
You are also the physician who must watch over yourself. But in the course of every illness there are many days in which the physician… — Rainer Maria Rilke
This work is an attempt to understand the time I live in. — Albert Camus
One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith, be condemned. But… — Albert Camus
Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts… — Albert Camus
Unlike landed white men, she didn't need to climb mountains to experience mystic panic. All she needed was to set her alarm dock for the… — Sherman Alexie
The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do… — Bill Moyers
The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it… — Rainn Wilson
Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose?… — Ray Romano

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