Existentialism Quotes

"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man" "I call myself a blind man riding on a blind tiger." "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." "Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself." "God does not exist; and it is necessary to draw the consequences of his absence right to the end." "We are our choices." "Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?" "What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet." "Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." "The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth" "Having nothing, nothing can he lose." "My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there" "Dyin' ain't much of a living" "The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel." "You can't describe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event" "If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do" "Whatever you do, it's never enough." "The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose" "Forever is composed of nows" "Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."