Existentialism Quotes

"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" "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." "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman" "Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom." "Once you label me you negate me." "Seizing the day, amidst its acceleration and decay" "Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain." "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" "The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have" "What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes." "You're on earth. There's no cure for that." "Nothing is more real than nothing." "The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new." "The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless" "The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now" "Some may never live but the crazy never die" "In what language does rain fall over tormented cities" "Man is a mystery. It needs to be unraveled, and if you spend your whole life unraveling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being." "The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular." "Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms."