Quotes about Existentialism
Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.
- Albert Camus
I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.
- Albert Camus
In me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
- Samuel Beckett
If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.
- Samuel Beckett
We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined.
- Jack Kerouac
There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.
- George Lucas
In Britain, people don't seem too worried about a possible end twenty billion years in the future. You can do quite a lot of eating, drinking and being merry before that.
- Stephen Hawking
Why is there something rather than nothing? Why do we exist? Why this particular set of laws and not some other?
- Stephen Hawking
Death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again for ever.
- Graham Greene
Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?
- LM Montgomery
A world without time would be a world without God, a world existing in and by itself, without renewal, without a Creator.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
- Albert Camus