Existentialism Quotes

181 quotes by 95 authors

I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating. — Jean-Paul Sartre
I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life. — Bill Watterson
Death is a continuation of my life without me... — Jean-Paul Sartre
However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light. — Stanley Kubrick
I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that… — Simone de Beauvoir
It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to… — Mark Haddon
Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough. — Jean-Paul Sartre
A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspiring cosmic history we find ourselves on this… — Lawrence M. Krauss
Uncertainty is the normal state. — Tom Stoppard
French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood. Thus we go… — Noam Chomsky
Nothingness haunts Being. — Jean-Paul Sartre
All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it… — Tom Stoppard
Everything is true, and nothing is true! — Albert Camus
If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, itâ€™s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will… — Charles Bukowski
I was asked about existentialism, and I told the person asking go look in the mirror for existence. — Jeremy Limn
We isolate with every step, brick our exits, and seek deeper inside our soul for the boundary of existentialism, the essence... — Mariana Fulger
I'm trying to deal with the thirty years I spent in prison, not the physical, because of existentialism. — Jedi Mind Tricks
Humanism is the philosophy that says humanity has unlimited potential. Give people enough time and education, and they can solve any problem. A stepsister to… — John Macarthur
To be evil is to suffer incredulity of your person who is faceted by the non-effects of a responsive behavior. — Isaac Thomas

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