Existentialism Quotes

"We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes." "If you accept that the universe is arbitrary, what's the big deal? It just is" "You are not born a woman, but become one" "To exist is to dare to throw oneself into the world" "People are strange: they are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice." "I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it. I say, Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I’ll be ready." "We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing." "Maybe this planet is some other planet’s hell." "Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs." "Time! The present! In these, I am almost inclined to believe. I am a skeptical mystic." "I am afraid that if you look at a thing long enough it loses all of its meaning " "The light is the same as it always was" "The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual" "I am aware that life is absurd. It’s just a contest between people enjoying their various symptoms." "If we were not all so excessively interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it" "Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no further purpose" "The average man does not know what to do with this life yet wants another one which will last forever" "The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason" "Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret" "The self thus becomes aware of itself only by its opposition to another self "