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Existentialism Quotes

"The best way to prepare for the future is to live as if there were none"
Helen Keller
"Welcome to the desert of the real"
Morpheus
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is."
Alan Watts
"To be, or not to be: that is the question."
William Shakespeare
"Most of life is about searching, it’s not about finding"
Naval Ravikant
"An unexamined life is not worth living."
Plato
"I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it."
Steven Wright
"To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem."
Douglas Adams
"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it."
Douglas Adams
"I am free and that is why I am lost"
Franz Kafka
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being"
Carl Jung
"I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go."
Neil Gaiman
"There are no men like me There's only me"
George R.R. Martin
"No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy."
Martin Heidegger
"Being is the furthest and emptiest and at the same time the nearest and fullest."
Martin Heidegger
"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."
Douglas Adams
"Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is."
Jean Paul Sartre
"To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of that which is chosen."
Jean Paul Sartre
"Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident."
Jean Paul Sartre