Quotes about Existentialism
It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning
- Albert Camus
life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
- Frank Herbert
Know thyself? Dasein sensed then he couldn't know himself without dying. Death was the background against which life could know itself.
- Frank Herbert
Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.
- Albert Camus
I am a confectionery-based existentialist.
- Bill Bailey
Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
- Albert Camus
For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still.
- Albert Camus
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
- Albert Camus
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.
- Albert Camus
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
- Albert Camus
Sartre went so far as to say that the only question he could not answer was why he did not commit suicide.
- Ravi Zacharias