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Existentialism Quotes

"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living."
Eckhart Tolle
"Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem."
Joseph Stalin
"Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it."
Woody Allen
"How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?"
Woody Allen
"It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune."
Woody Allen
"A life without cause is a life without effect."
Paulo Coelho
"The goal of all life is death."
Sigmund Freud
"The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation."
Sigmund Freud
"If quick, I survive. If not quick, I am lost. This is death."
Sun Tzu
"Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things."
Buddha
"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop."
Rumi
"This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief."
Rumi
"Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honours depend upon heaven."
Confucius
"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is"
Albert Camus
"Hell is other people"
Jean Paul Sartre
"Existence precedes and rules essence"
Jean Paul Sartre
"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does"
Jean Paul Sartre
"Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come."
Haruki Murakami
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."
Fyodor Dostoevsky