Existentialism Quotes

"I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it." "To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem." "He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it." "I am free and that is why I am lost" "As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being" "Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are" "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone" "Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed" "The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster" "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream" "The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers" "Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates." "The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy" "Every other is completely other" "The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems laughable" "We have confused the real and the extraordinary to the point where we no longer know which is which" "Seizing the day, amidst its acceleration and decay" "Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom." "Once you label me you negate me." "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman"