Existentialism Quotes

"The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm" "They give birth astride of a grave the light gleams an instant then it's night once more" "What is a man without desires, without Free Will " "What labels me, negates me." "The soul that has no established aim loses itself." "To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one let us deprive life of the fear of death." "Between the idea and the reality between the motion and the act falls the Shadow" "There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point" "Reality does not conform to the ideal but confirms it" "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth" "We are all alone born alone die alone and in spite of True Romance magazines we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that in spite of our company we were alone the whole way I do not say lonely at least not all the time but essentially and finally alone This is what makes your self-respect so important and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness" "I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks." "I don't know if you know who you are until you lose who you are " "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found" "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" "Our higher existential needs are what motivate us to spend our brief time on the planet in meaningful ways." "To be mature means to take responsibility for defining meaning in our lives, creating fresh forms of meaning via work, relationships, and feeling the fullness of existence." "Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity." "I am nothing. I will never be anything. I cannot wish to be anything. Aside from that, I have within me all the dreams of the world." "To feel today what one felt yesterday isn’t to feel – it’s to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today’s living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost."