Existentialism Quotes

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If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness… — Martin Heidegger
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing? — Martin Heidegger
I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love… — Anne Lamott
Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman… — Anne Lamott
I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one. — Thomas Lynch
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of… — Vladimir Nabokov
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very… — Friedrich Nietzsche
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would… — Chuck Palahniuk
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason. — Blaise Pascal
All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a little more existential… — Josh Radnor
I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst. — Meg Ryan
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. — Carl Sagan
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… — Jerry Saltz
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. — Jean-Paul Sartre

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