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Quotes about Existentialism

For 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
We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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.
- Viktor E. Frankl
But why must all the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?
- Ernest Hemingway
Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.
- Bo Burnham
The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
- Albert Einstein
It's better to bet on this life than on the next.
- Albert Camus
Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.
- Cormac McCarthy
You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.
- Euripides
Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remarks the futility of themselves.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
- Soren Kierkegaard