Existentialism Quotes

"If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?" "The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death. What’s that, a bonus?" "My trade and my art is to live." "Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence" "What kind of world is this if a madman tells you must be ashamed of yourselves" "The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm" "They give birth astride of a grave the light gleams an instant then it's night once more" "What is a man without desires, without Free Will " "What labels me, negates me." "The soul that has no established aim loses itself." "To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one let us deprive life of the fear of death." "Between the idea and the reality between the motion and the act falls the Shadow" "There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point" "Reality does not conform to the ideal but confirms it" "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth"