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Nothingness haunts Being.
Words are loaded pistols.
I rebel; therefore I exist.
Uncertainty is the normal state.
The point is there ain't no point.
Some men become what they were born for.
Everything is true, and nothing is true!
To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
Death is a continuation of my life without me.
There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.
One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.
I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.
There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.
One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
No one can advise and help you, no one. There is only one way: go within.
The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber.
It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.
Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more.
Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children.
Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)
You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.
It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.
My favorite word is existentialism. I can't say it and I'm not quite sure what it means.
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.
Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither.
Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.
The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.
Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern.
I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.
the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith
Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
Existentialism is possible only in a world where God is dead or a luxury, and where Christianity is dead.
Don't you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist.
Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.