Existentialism Quotes

"God does not exist; and it is necessary to draw the consequences of his absence right to the end." "Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself." "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." "I call myself a blind man riding on a blind tiger." "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man" "When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?" "You didn't come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here" "Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun" "Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them." "Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being." "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide." "All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there" "If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little" "I am so busy doing nothing that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything." "You know what, it's not your life, it's life. Life is bigger than you, if you can imagine that" "Here are additional quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche:" "When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you" "Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man" "To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die." "We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die."