Existentialism Quotes - Page 2

Nothingness haunts Being.

The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.

Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing.

I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis.

All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a little more existential or cosmic.

One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.

The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.

Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.

The existential attitude is one of involvement in contrast to a merely theoretical or detached attitude. "Existential" in this sense can be defined as participating in a situation, especially a cognitive situation, with the whole of one's existence.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

Don't you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist.

Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)

When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still to see oneself living at great speed, right up to the moment of death.

Existentialism is possible only in a world where God is dead or a luxury, and where Christianity is dead.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.