Existentialism Quotes

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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… — Charles Bukowski
But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while.… — Albert Camus
I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100. — Woody Allen
One fast move or I'm gone,' I realize, gone the way of the last three years of drunken hopelessness which is a physical and spiritual… — Jack Kerouac
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… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
But how could you live and have no story to tell? — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It wasn't the New World that mattered...Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Apparently there is no profit in the unique, or not enough to make it worthwhile to preserve. Ultimately it drains the life out of us,… — Lewis Black
In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual weakness… — Simone de Beauvoir
Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our… — Hermann Hesse
Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us? — Cornelia Funke
We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that weâ€™re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers.… — Irvine Welsh
A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after… — Philip K. Dick
I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted. — Jack Kerouac
At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but… — Albert Camus
I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source or plunged into… — Jean-Paul Sartre
It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood. — Matthew Woodring Stover

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