Existentialism Quotes

"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." "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 is fully responsible for his nature and his choices." "Fall in love with some activity and do it Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter" "The meaning of life is meaning: whatever it is, wherever it comes from, a unified purpose is what gives meaning to life" "Life is either a great adventure or nothing." "I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability." "Life only unfolds in moments." "The most thought-provoking thing is that we are still not thinking." "The nothing nothings." "Can beauty be so sad" "We are everlastingly in the world of objects; worse than that, we are objectified in objects. Humanity has become a production of artificial experiences and sensations." "The world is my idea." "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."