Existentialism Quotes

"Humans are creatures who spend their lives trying to convince themselves their existence is not absurd." "I have a lot of beliefs, and I live by none of them" "If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe." "A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die" "You are free and that is why you are lost" "The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast." "Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live" "If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever" "I don't believe in the afterlife although I am bringing a change of underwear" "Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it" "The secret to your existence is right in front of you" "Your true home is in the here and the now." "The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking." "The question of being is not a question of an entity." "We do not say being we say the nothing." "The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time." "The meaning of life is that it stops" "Reality is frequently inaccurate" "For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen." "The chances of finding out what's really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied."