Existentialism Quotes

Religion is a theory about everything that needs to be proved only after death those who prove or disprove it never come back to us to tell the story

All religions are guesswork

My gut instinct is that these heavens and hells exist nowhere else except in our hearts and minds

Don’t curse the gods you will feel shame when you have to call on them for help

God is powerful. Even those who claim not to believe in him fear him. Though their mouths may confess to disbelieve in him, their hearts yearn for him.

You can't have it both ways. Either you believe in my god or you go to hell

An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't find him. Atheism is a cry of despair

I know what is going on in the heart of an atheist. Deep anguish that there is nothing beyond, nothing to live for, nothing to give him hope. I know because I endured the same predicament.

Maybe I should tell her that things without meaning are the most beautiful ones. It’s a good sentence, she’ll like it.

Existence is where the soul goes to learn how to interpret itself again.

[in the true mad north] of introspection, where 'falcons of the inner eye'dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of existence.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, writing books, learning about things, but I’ve been swindled all the same because it’s never anything more.

Living in the present moment is the recurring baptism of the soul, forever purifying every new day with a new you.

As a result of subduing the forces of nature with the tools that we invent, we find ourselves today at the point where the force of our tools has become a greater concern than the forces of nature.

I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A river, suffering because reflections of clouds and tress and not clouds and trees.

Biology is run by intricate cellular mechanisms. Cellular mechanisms are run by Nature. Thus, the more we attempt to understand Nature, the more we get closer to our existential properties.

Don’t worry if you don’t accomplish everything in this life. Fortunately, death overcomes every thing—even the very thing that tried to kill us.

You think it’s a game?Unintelligible? Ha!Envision no spoons.This is serious.It is a matter of joyversus emptiness.

What is the point of our lives? There isn't any. I can't seem to decide how much horror and how much joy lies within that simple truth, but I know it is both of those things at once.

Max: Why do I get the feeling you’ve played god and you don’t know what you’ve created.Dr Hurstville: Hasn’t god done the same with us?

You’re not interested in her because by your definition she isn’t real. But your brain doesn’t know the difference. It’s all just chemicals firing and testosterone giving you a hard-on.

Is it murder to kill a man if the man never existed? To the man it is.

She was like a landscape you see from the train, and you want to stop just there.

Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.

Loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of objective meaning from the universe.

Solitude, the joy of being alone, stems from, as well as promotes, a state of maturity and inner richness.

…one lives and analyses data within a frame, unaware that the solution is most often just outside of that frame. Never underestimate the depth of your subjectivity.

From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living.

In the quantum multiverse, every choice, every decision you've ever and never made exists in an unimaginably vast ensemble of parallel universes.

We each possess the ability creatively to respond to the ontological mystery of our existence.

Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.

If the achievement of so much in life could not make one happy, then why bother living?

We co-existed in peaceful detachment

Camus and Henry waved to me from that muddy truck. They both wanted me to get over myself.So, this was me, getting over myself. And it was about time.

They say I don’t exist. They say I am an extension, an indulgence, imagination of a schizophrenic person.

I know we didn't accomplish anything, but it felt great to sit there and talk about our place in things.

Is this neuro-bot really supposed to be her, this creature, this thing, compiled of the ghosts of human data, the replicas of their past?

Thank you, Jesus, for blindness that every once in a great while allows one of us to hit the target.

In other words, where we are is vital to who we are.

What's the point of wandering?to find a better place?a home?But the loneliness will always capture mein its clawsof no tomorrow

God desires that man should be. God does not wish to be alone. The meaning of existence is the conquest of loneliness, the acquisition of kinship and nearness.

Self-questioning – an effort to get in touch with our essential self – is an endless stream of thought.

The children laughing without knowing why - isn't that beautiful?

What else is there to do?

In a single wave of meaning the triumphant purity of being.

All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach them.

Positive disintegration is the sublimation of suffering

The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.

I started out a human being. But pretty much had all the humanity wrung out of me after passing the Bar and practicing law for ten years. Not sure what I am now.

It’s maybe impossible to escape (your own head), but I guess the secret is the prison cell just gets bigger and bigger and bigger and prettier and prettier and prettier.