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Existentialism Quotes

"Maybe this world is another planet's hell"
Aldous Huxley
"Make no mistake about why these babies are here - they are here to replace us."
Jerry Seinfeld
"But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist?"
Mikhail Bulgakov
"The most common form of despair is not being who you are."
Soren Kierkegaard
"The crowd is untruth"
Soren Kierkegaard
"The greatest hazard of all, losing oneself, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all"
Soren Kierkegaard
"The sea has neither meaning nor pity."
Anton Chekhov
"Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable"
Anton Chekhov
"Where is the Life we have lost in living Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge Where is the knowledge we have lost in information"
T. S. Eliot
"There is a wisdom that is woe but there is a woe that is madness"
Herman Melville
"The whole future lies in uncertainty live immediately"
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"A human being is a deciding being"
Viktor E. Frankl
"Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills"
Arthur Schopenhauer
"We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness"
Arthur Schopenhauer
"There is no doubt that life is given us not to be enjoyed but to be overcome to be got over"
Arthur Schopenhauer
"If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?"
Erich Fromm
"The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death. What’s that, a bonus?"
George Carlin
"My trade and my art is to live."
Michel de Montaigne
"Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence"
Salman Rushdie
"What kind of world is this if a madman tells you must be ashamed of yourselves"
Jose Saramago
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