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Existentialism Quotes

"The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy"
Gustave Flaubert
"Every other is completely other"
Jacques Derrida
"The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems laughable"
Jean Piaget
"We have confused the real and the extraordinary to the point where we no longer know which is which"
Jose Saramago
"Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are"
Jose Saramago
"Death is the winner, there's no point denying that"
Jose Saramago
"We are an impossibility in an impossible universe"
Ray Bradbury
"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things"
Rene Descartes
"The chances of finding out what is actually going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang a sense of humor on it and hope for the best."
Richard Dawkins
"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman"
Simone de Beauvoir
"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."
Søren Kierkegaard
"Once you label me you negate me."
Søren Kierkegaard
"Seizing the day, amidst its acceleration and decay"
Walter Benjamin
"Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain."
William Faulkner
"People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive"
Joseph Campbell
"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom"
Soren Kierkegaar
"The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have"
Soren Kierkegaar
"What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes."
Samuel Beckett
"You're on earth. There's no cure for that."
Samuel Beckett
"Nothing is more real than nothing."
Samuel Beckett