Existentialism Quotes

"The universe doesn’t care what you believe. You can’t redeem yourself; redeeming is what you do to something you’ve done wrong." "What is there that is too dirty, too sordid, too depressing to be read about or spoken of? If literature cannot deal with the grimy underbelly of life, then what is it for?" "For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom." "A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other" "Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse strewn with many a philosophic wreck" "Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else." "Yesterday I was a dog Today I'm a dog Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement" "Only a god can save us." "Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know the impossibility of deciding." "I think, therefore I am a liberal" "How easy it is to die of loathing in the streets, or of contempt when at last one gets home." "The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours." "It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another; it’s one damn thing over and over" "So make a choice. Continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it." "The source of all the material comes from nothingness, silence, and emptiness." "He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife." "As far as we can discern the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being" "There are no atheists in the foxholes" "All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure." "I don’t want to go to heaven None of my friends are there"