Quotes about Existentialism

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Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the g — David Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the ap — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as — José Saramago, Death with Interruptions
Try again. Fail again. Fail better. — Samuel Beckett
Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate — Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch. — Jean-Luc Godard
I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100. — Woody Allen
I can't go on, I'll go on. — Samuel Beckett, I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader
The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there. — Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
We are gods with anuses. — Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été. — Albert Camus
He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivoc — Jean-Paul Sartre
Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes t — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity
Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action.(There is no reality except in action.) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism
Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when th — Albert Camus, The Stranger
I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to her, his friendships — Albert Camus
We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could — Albert Camus, The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may see — Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism
Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a grea — Albert Camus, A Happy Death