Existentialism Quotes

"The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy" "Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates." "The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers" "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream" "The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster" "Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed" "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone" "Life has no meaning a priori. It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose." "Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun" "No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for." "Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy." "Being is the furthest and emptiest and at the same time the nearest and fullest." "The story so far In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." "Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is." "To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of that which is chosen." "Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident." "It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are." "One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life." "The nothing nothings." "Life only unfolds in moments."