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Existentialism Quotes

"Seizing the day, amidst its acceleration and decay"
Walter Benjamin
"Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain."
William Faulkner
"People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive"
Joseph Campbell
"The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have"
Soren Kierkegaard
"What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes."
Samuel Beckett
"You're on earth. There's no cure for that."
Samuel Beckett
"Nothing is more real than nothing."
Samuel Beckett
"The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new."
Samuel Beckett
"The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless"
Steven Weinberg
"The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now"
Bill Cosby
"Some may never live but the crazy never die"
Hunter S. Thompson
"In what language does rain fall over tormented cities"
Pablo Neruda
"Man is a mystery. It needs to be unraveled, and if you spend your whole life unraveling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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