Quotes about Existentialism

I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.

Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

mankind was apparently doomed to vacillate eternally between the two extremes of distress and boredom.

How comes the world to be here at all instead of the nonentity which might be imagined in its place? ... from nothing to being there is no logical bridge.

You may say you won't interfere with another person's soul, but you do—merely by existing. The snag about it is the practical difficulty, so to speak, of not existing.

As Julie Andrews once sang, "Nothing came from nothing. Nothing ever could.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

My life is utterly meaningless

we must learn to see life as meaningful despite our circumstances. It emphasizes that there is an ultimate purpose to life. And in its original version, before an appendix was added, it concluded with one of the most religious sentences written in the twentieth Century:

To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.

There is not love of life without despair about life.