Existentialism Quotes

"Man is a reasonable being and as such he always continues to act as if he were a free agent though he is in fact otherwise" "Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us." "Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing" "The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth." "The universe is without design and without purpose." "The only meaning of life is the meaning we create." "Free will is like love: it is real, it matters, it can be misunderstood." "Cogito ergo sum " "I wonder if life is ever lived well by anybody, if there is any one thing that might be called a success—except survival." "The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die" "Boredom is the root of all evil the despairing refusal to be oneself" "We are on earth to help others; what the others are here for, I don't know " "What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?" "The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference" "The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won’t find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice" "I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens." "There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke" "Most of us have two lives. The life we live and the unlived life within us" "The soul is the prison of the body" "The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside."