Existentialism Quotes

"All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there" "If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little" "I am so busy doing nothing that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything." "You know what, it's not your life, it's life. Life is bigger than you, if you can imagine that" "When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you" "Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man" "To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die." "We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die." "Humans are creatures who spend their lives trying to convince themselves their existence is not absurd." "If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe." "A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die" "You are free and that is why you are lost" "The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast." "Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live" "If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever"