Existential Quotes

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.

But how could you live and have no story to tell?

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

The point is there ain't no point.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair.

I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.

I rebel; therefore I exist.

...intimacy being reduced to its content of mere sensation, will only be the misleading, obscure, and desperate alleviation of the existential disgust and anguish of him who has stumbled into a blind alley.

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.

Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.

Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the one you are with; you are not liking the person you have become.

You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.

Pure, existential space was regularly winking at me, each time in a more impressive manner, and this sensation of total freedom attracted me so powerfully that I painted some monochrome surfaces just to 'see,' to 'see' with my own eyes what existential sensibility granted me: absolute freedom!

Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity.

Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms.

I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.