Existentialism Quotes

181 quotes by 95 authors

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Words are loaded pistols. — Jean-Paul Sartre
I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. — Jean-Paul Sartre
One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up.… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance. — 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… — Jean-Paul Sartre
To eat is to appropriate by destruction. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened. — Archie Shepp
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. — Henry David Thoreau
I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things. — Mike Tyson
I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it. — Steven Wright
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as Iâ€™ve said before, bugs in amber. — Kurt Vonnegut
Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children,… — Betty Friedan
The point is there ain't no point. — Cormac McCarthy
He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate;… — Jean-Paul Sartre
There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the… — Oscar Wilde
There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and pointâ€¦ The truly adult view, by… — Richard Dawkins
Every true faith is infallible. It performs what the believing person hopes to find in it. But it does not offer the least support for… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable. — Albert Camus

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