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Existentialism Quotes

"We are all obliged, sooner or later, to join the great majority."
Samuel Beckett
"Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on."
Samuel Beckett
"The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love."
Alan Watts
"I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity"
Simone de Beauvoir
"The entire universe is through and for me; the rest is hypothesis. "
Fernando Pessoa
"Whoever despises himself still respects himself as one who despises"
Friedrich Nietzsche
"We must imagine Sisyphus happy."
Albert Camus
"We are all special cases"
Albert Camus
"We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves"
Albert Camus
"The world is always ending, for someone."
Neil Gaiman
"Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when everyone has to throw off his mask? Do you believe that life will always allow itself to be trifled with?"
Soren Kierkegaard
"I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"If there is no God, everything is permitted"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe"
Carl Sagan
"As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport."
William Shakespeare
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools."
William Shakespeare
"The entire life of man is a struggle in the dark"
Erich Fromm
"Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve"
Erich Fromm
"Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies"
Erich Fromm
"Destructiveness is the outcome of an unlived life"
Erich Fromm
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