Existentialism Quotes
Subconsciously, we all want to be nebula... In the end, we’re all connected. We’re all going to become one cloud of light whether you like it or not. We’re all made of the same star dust.
At any moment when you are you, you are you without the memory of yourself because if you remember yourself while you are you, you are not for the purposes of creating you.
A sense of his own identity came upon him with sudden force, and he felt the power of it. He was himself, and he knew what he had been.
I too am my own forerunner, though I sit in the shadows of my trees and seem motionless.
If the existentialists are right, that life is meaningless, and if we acknowledge that, we are better equipped to find pleasure in small things.
To choose not to choose is still a choice for which you alone are responsible.
When reason has followed its road to the end, the point of crisis is reached and man is brought to the great question mark over his own existence.
A person experiences anxiety when they realize their insignificance in the cosmic field, which present state of angst can exacerbated by other confusing life questions.
The doctor was not, he thought, really sure that anyone else existed, and wanted to prove they did by helping them.
There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life’s highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time.
No more dreamin about the whole adult gig, We’re no longer burnin’ toward nothing, dude. Just well on our way on a mythical ship, which no longer touches Land. God Bless the Cap’n.
One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it
As joy dwindles with the yearsI wistfully recallWhen the christmas treeLooked ten feet tallAnd the presents under itSeemed endless And more Than mere wrapping paper.
I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.
Deep down, it's all baseball, no matter what kind of geometrical shape you play it with.
How did I picture the life after the grave?I Fairly bawled out at him: 'A life in which I can remember this life on earth. That's all I want of it.
Fate is the cruelest of masters, takingLife when it pleases or at random, handingRigged decks to whom it pleases, cheatingAll alike and none the wiser, takingEverything away from those with nothing.
I wish I could see butterflies burst from cocoonsWithout tempering my amazementKnowing all beauty eventually dies.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.
A Chinese proverb: Outside of sky there is sky, outside of people there are people. It is the idea of infinity and also that there will always be someone better than you.
And just then it crossed my mind that one might fire, or not fire—and it would come to absolutely the same thing.
Have you ever felt in your inmost being, the conscience of others?' again she was trembling, the words were not releasing her. 'It's intolerable you know
I knew I was lost inside the world, watching it and trying to understand why too often I felt like I was standing just beyond the frame—of everything.