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Quotes about Existentialism

As Julie Andrews once sang, "Nothing came from nothing. Nothing ever could.
- Ravi Zacharias
You may say you won't interfere with another person's soul, but you do—merely by existing. The snag about it is the practical difficulty, so to speak, of not existing.
- Dorothy Sayers
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
- Soren Kierkegaard
It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored
- Albert Camus
For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.
- Albert Camus
I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one
- Albert Camus
Estragon: I can't go on like this. Vladimir: That's what you think.
- Samuel Beckett
Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.
- Victor Hugo
There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.
- Paul Ricoeur
As the French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre observed, several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.
- William Lane Craig
If there is a God what the hell is He for?
- William Faulkner