Existentialism Quotes

"The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth" "Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." "What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet." "Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?" "We are our choices." "God does not exist; and it is necessary to draw the consequences of his absence right to the end." "Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself." "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." "I call myself a blind man riding on a blind tiger." "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man" "When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?" "You didn't come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here" "Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them." "Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being." "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide."