Quotes tagged ‘Existentialism’

“I'm sorry she's dead, man. That sucks. But being alive can kinda suck sometimes, too. It's hard being alive, ain't it?”

— Rolin Jones, Sean Foster, Trevor Long, imdb.com

“Noreen Vanderslice: Camus says knowin' we're gonna die makes life absurd. Betsy Solverson: Well, I don't know who that is. But I'm guessing he doesn't have a 6-year-old girl. Noreen Vanderslice: He's French. Betsy Solverson: Ugh, I don't care if he's from Mars. Nobody with any sense would say someth…”

— Noah Hawley, Betsy Solverson, Cristin Milioti, imdb.com

“Noreen Vanderslice: Camus says knowing we're all gonna die makes life a joke. Ed Blomquist: So what, you just—you just give up? Noreen Vanderslice: You could kill yourself, get it over with.”

— Noah Hawley, Ben Nedivi, Ed Blomquist, Jesse Plemons, imdb.com

“When we can't dream any longer we die.”

— Emma Goldman, en.wikiquote.org

“If we lived each day as our last, I bet we’d all be a lot more honest with people, because we wouldn’t have to care what people think anymore.”

— Ellen Degeneres, books.google.com

“I'm not thinking about dying at all. I'm not wondering if it hurts or if I could have done more while I was alive or if anyone's gonna think about me after I'm gone, I I'm not wondering what it's like. One minute you are, and the next you just aren't.”

— Beth Szymkowski, Matthew V. Lewis, Zoe Parker, Meghan Rienks, imdb.com

“Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space. Do the dead find peace beyond the rattle of the world? What peace is there for us whose best love cannot return them even for a day?”

— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com

“Consider for a moment that what you call your "personality" is actually just a composite of habits & behavioral patterns you developed to cope with trauma. Now ask yourself, who am I outside of my pain? Who would I be if I stopped living life as a product of my story?”

— Ebonee Davis, twitter.com

“I wouldn't know how to see whatever I saw: the explanation of an enigma is the mere repetition of the enigma. What are you? and the answer is: You are. What do you exist? and the answer is: what you exist.”

— Clarice Lispector, amazon.com

“And I live with the dead – my mother , my sister [Sophie], my grandfather, my father [who died in 1889, when Munch was in France].. .Every day is the same – my friends have stopped coming – their laughter disturbs me, tortures me.. ..my daily walk round the old castle becomes shorter and shorter, it…”

— Edvard Munch, en.wikiquote.org

“Procreation is not the only meaning of life, for then life in itself would become meaningless, and something which in itself is meaningless cannot be rendered meaningful merely by its perpetuation.”

— Viktor Frankl, amazon.com

“One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, goodreads.com

“I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com

“Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question. I live with such frenzied intensity. Things and people are waiting for me, and doubtless I am waiting for them and desiring them with all my strength and sadness. But, here, I earn the right to be alive by silence and secrecy. The miracle of…”

— Albert Camus, amazon.com

“You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles when a carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself. In a man who thinks like this, the dic…”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com

“After awhile you could get used to anything.”

— Albert Camus, amazon.com

“I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.”

— Isabelle Eberhardt, amazon.com

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”

— Alan Watts, amazon.com

“I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question.”

— Harun Yahya, goodreads.com

“Imagine immortality, where even a marriage of fifty years would feel like a one-night stand. Imagine seeing trends and fashions blur past you. Imagine the world more crowded and desperate every century. Imagine changing religions, homes, diets, careers, until none of them have any real value.Imagine…”

— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com