Existentialism Quotes

"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." "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." "The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy" "Every other is completely other" "The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems laughable" "We have confused the real and the extraordinary to the point where we no longer know which is which" "Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are" "Death is the winner, there's no point denying that" "We are an impossibility in an impossible universe"