Top 25 Existentialism Quotes of 87

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.

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.

Martin Heidegger

Anxiety, Faces, Existentialism

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Stories, Existentialism, Minimalist

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

Life, Existentialism, Moments

Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.11, Open Road Media

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

Martin Heidegger

Philosophy, Philosophical, Existentialism

Martin Heidegger (2014). “Introduction to Metaphysics: Second Edition”, p.25, Yale University Press

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

Stanley Kubrick

Light, Darkness, Existentialism

Interview with Eric Nordern, Playboy, September 1968.

The point is there ain't no point.

Cormac McCarthy

Nihilism, Existentialism, 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.

Blaise Pascal

God, Heart, Existentialism

Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

I rebel; therefore I exist.

Albert Camus

Life, Rebel, Existentialism

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

Albert Camus

Struggle, Passion, Existentialism

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.73, Vintage

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Teacher, Existentialism, Pupils

Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.120, Penguin

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.

Viktor E. Frankl

Suffering, Encounters, Existentialism

Viktor E. Frankl (1985). “Man's Search For Meaning”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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

Delmore Schwartz

Mean, Baths, Existentialism

Delmore Schwartz (1950). “Vaudeville for a princess, and other poems”

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

Existentialism, Episodes, Regard

Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.299, Oxford University Press

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

Albert Camus

Falling In Love, Despair, Existentialism

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.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Nausea, Want, Existentialism

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

Existentialism, Existence

"Nausea". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1938.

From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.

Simone de Beauvoir

Philosophy, Existentialism, Ambiguity

Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.62, Open Road Media

I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.

Albert Camus

Life, World, Existentialism

Albert Camus (2002). “The Stranger”, Spark Notes

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Judging, Guilt, Existentialism

Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.66, Penguin