Quotes about Existentialism

I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.

It insists that life is meaningful and that we must learn to see life as meaningful despite our circumstances. It emphasizes that there is an ultimate purpose to life.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering

If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering.

meaning is possible even in spite of suffering—provided, certainly, that the suffering is unavoidable.

The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.

Logotherapy deviates from psychoanalysis insofar as it considers man a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning, rather than in the mere gratification and satisfaction of drives and instincts, or in merely reconciling the conflicting claims of id, ego and superego, or in the mere adaptation and adjustment to society and environment.

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:

There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.

There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.

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

There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death…