Quotes about Existentialism

The only intelligent tactical response to life's horror is to laugh defiantly at it

Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.

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.

My life is utterly meaningless

for he who loves God without faith reflects upon himself he who loves God believingly reflects upon God.

What is certain is that to become of interest, for one's life to be interesting, has nothing to do with what you can turn your hand to but is a fateful privilege which, like every privilege in the world of spirit, can only be purchased in deep pain.

Either the individual becomes a knight of faith by assuming the burden of the paradox, or he never becomes one.

he who loves God without faith reflects upon himself he who loves God believingly reflects upon God.

Only in much fear and trembling is a human being able to speak with God, in much fear and trembling

Deep in my heart I care about God. What he going to think. And come to find out, he don't think. Just sit up there glorying in being deef, I reckon. But it ain't easy, trying to do without God. Even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain.

There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.

It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.