"I want my name to mean me." — Mark Haddon

More Existentialism Quotes

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• I can't go on. I'll go on. — Samuel Beckett
• It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are… — Albert Camus
• Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion… — Anita Brookner
• I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of… — Michel Foucault
• John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the… — Jack Kerouac
• The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism. It is part reality and part nightmare — Martin Esslin
• Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you. — Delmore Schwartz
• To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Contrary to what our brains are telling us, there's no mystical force that imbues a winner with a streak of… — Charles Seife
• I found earthquakes, even when I was in them, deeply satisfying, abruptly revealed evidence of the scheme in action. That… — Joan Didion
• All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy… — Albert Camus
• It's a waste to chase the pipe dream of a magical tiny theory that allows us to make quick and… — Rudy Rucker

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