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Existentialism Quotes

"Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun."

"Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honours depend upon heaven."

"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

"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop."

― Rumi

"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."

"If quick, I survive. If not quick, I am lost. This is death."

"The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation."

― Sigmund Freud

"The goal of all life is death."

― Sigmund Freud

"A life without cause is a life without effect."

― Paulo Coelho

"It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune."

― Woody Allen

"How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?"

― Woody Allen

"Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it."

― Woody Allen

"Having nothing, nothing can he lose."

― William Shakespeare

"It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living."

― Eckhart Tolle

"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily."

― Napoleon Bonaparte

"Everything alters me, but nothing changes me."

― Salvador Dali