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Existentialism Quotes

"He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."

"Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so"

"Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance"

"Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse strewn with many a philosophic wreck"

"Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one."

"The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose"

"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"

"I think you still have to do things even if they don’t have any point."

"I am aware that life is absurd. It’s just a contest between people enjoying their various symptoms."

"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."

"I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human."

"I will show you fear in a handful of dust"

"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"

"Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret"

"The past is the terror, and the future time itself"

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