Existentialism Quotes
Never let a minister say you are a sinner for he or she is a sinner too. Nor never let a psychiatrist say you have a mental disorder for he or she has problems too.
If life is supposed to be a theater, then somehow, we all met and played our part.
Never feed someone else's dream, you will only remain as a ghost in their vision.
all the existentialists concur that it is through our choices that we become who we are.
In every life there are events that reshape one's sense of existence. Afterward, all is different and the past is dimmed.
Say not: I live today, I shall die tomorrow. Divide not reality between life and death. Say: now I live and die.
My mother once said if you can’t handle the fact that your world-view might be entirely inaccurate, you are not worthy of believing in it.
Life is short and evasive. This shortness and evasiveness of life is not predicated on numeric quantifiers, but embedded in the limitation on humans as mere mortals.
Do you believe we are masters of ourselves, or merely dance like puppets on strings having the illusion of independence?
What is there flattering, amusing, or edifying in their carving your name on a tombstone, then time rubbing off the inscription together with the gilding?
We are merely pieces of a grander design, even more insignificant than I imagined. When the earth ceases to be, all those stars will shine on. Our deaths will mean nothing to them.
That stage in life when older people assume that just because you've graduated college you know who you are, or what you're doing, and in fact most people don't.
The cultural problem was 'the fallacy of insignificance', and it was a philosophical form of this fallacy that had somehow landed existentialism in a cul de sac.
We can't even resist making antimatter, so what makes you think we are going to leave cloning technology untapped? (Douglas Parsley)
He did not look up because he knew how senseless the landscape would appear. It takes energy to invest life with meaning, and at present this energy was lacking.
We are, for all our polish, of littlestature, and, as human lives, compared with authentic martyrs, of no account.
The sky both exists and doesn’t exist. It has substance and at the same time doesn’t. And we merely accept that vast expanse and drink it in.
The awkwardness of getting reward in a well-off society is that the creation of appetite often requires undoing the work of satisfying appetite.
There is no reasonable doubt that existentialism will soon become the predominant philosophical current among bourgeois intellectuals." (1949)
He’s a typical existentialist. And that’s a contradiction in terms if ever there was one.
I relish my life. It’s the one I have. It’s difficult, beautiful, painful, full of laughter, passing strange. Whatever else it is, whatever it brings – it’s mine.
Someone's got to do some more research, but I would really like to know: when a CBT therapist really gets distressed, who does he go see?
Saving and pinching to get married, you're losing the best time of your life.
By dint of saying that I'm not alive, I accept the fact that people cease to regard me.
Innumerable arcs intersect and scatter into a vast indefinite sea.
The greatest discovery of the 21st century will be the discovery that Man was not meant to live at the speed of light.
...just because someone is a loner, it doesn't mean they’re alone. And just because someone is alone, it doesn't mean they’re lonely.
Old people die not because no one cared for them but because someone they expected care from did not bother.
What are all the thoughts rattling in your mind when you're not listening to the answers to questions you ask?" -Jo, Boom
We call love what binds us to certain creatures only by reference to a collective way of seeing for which books and legends are responsible.
As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it.
Do I dream you? Or you dream me? Or does someone, something bigger than all' - her hands swept the vast constellations above them - 'this beauteous calamity, dream everything we see and more?
You live in a deranged age - more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
Who, cher monsieur, will sleep on the floor for us? Whether I am capable of it myself? Look, I'd like to be and I shall be. Yes, we shall all be capable of it one day, and that will be salvation.
-The burden of existence is bestowed upon birth.-The gift of existence is bestowed upon birth.Choose wisely, your life (and potential others' life) depend on it.