Existentialism Quotes

"You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps precisely this holding back is the one suffering you could avoid"

"Hell is other people"

"Nothingness haunts being."

"The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death"

"We are renewed by glimpsing the abyss."

"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily."

"I am a cage in search of a bird"

"What kind of world is this if a madman tells you must be ashamed of yourselves"

"To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die."

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions"

"People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone"

"We are all alone born alone die alone and in spite of True Romance magazines we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that in spite of our company we were alone the whole way I do not say lonely at least not all the time but essentially and finally alone This is what makes your self-respect so important and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness"

"God does not exist; and it is necessary to draw the consequences of his absence right to the end."

"Life has no meaning except for the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers."

"A belief in hell is the only one, among numerous metaphysical beliefs, which has always seemed to me to be entirely certain."