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

our situation reminded me of a fable I had read somewhere. Chased by a tiger, a man slips and falls over the edge of a mountain. As he falls, he manages to grab a bush...

Next time we will look at this from a much more basic point of view and one antedating all zoology, which, glimpsed only a little after my twentieth year, made write in those days that...

Uncertainty is the normal state.

Positivist man is a curious creature who dwells in the tiny island of light composed of what he finds scientifically “meaningful,” while the whole surrounding area in which ordinary men live from day to day...

It is now my intention to draw out from the story of Abraham the dialecticalconsequences inherent in it, expressing them in the form ofproblemata, in order to seewhat a tremendous paradox faith is, a paradox...

What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?”I don’t know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption,...

Existence is illusory and it is eternal.

How hollow to have no secrets left; you shake yourself and nothing rattles. You’re boneless as an anemone.

You are the illusion. The person in the mirror is real.

You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles whe na carriage goes past. I however am...

If the existentialists are right, that life is meaningless, and if we acknowledge that, we are better equipped to find pleasure in small things.

What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not...

I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon.

That stage in life when older people assume that just because you’ve graduated college you know who you are, or what you’re doing, and in fact most people don’t.

One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.

The combination of our mortality with our groundlessness imparts to human life its pressing and enigmatic character. We struggle to in our brief time in the midst of an impenetrable darkness. A small area is...

La voluntad, el deseo de vivir, es tan fuerte en el animal como en el hombre. En el hombre es mayor la comprensión. A más comprender, corresponde menos desear. Esto es lógico, y además se...

Don’t you think our society is designed to kill in that way? Of course, you’ve surely heard about those tiny fish in the rivers of Brazil which attack the swimmer by the thousands, eat him...

When Sartre says man has been thrown into the world, he is alone, there is no God, we are responsible for what we are, what we do, I say yes!”The affirmative echoed around the woods....

Time is only linear for engineers and referees.

To choose not to choose is still a choice for which you alone are responsible.

saat cinta ataupun kebencia tidak berperan, tindaka perempuan akan biasabiasa saja

Subconsciously, we all want to be nebula… In the end, we’re all connected. We’re all going to become one cloud of light whether you like it or not. We’re all made of the same star...

If God did not exist, everything would be permitted”; and that, for existentialism, is the starting point. Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot...

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.

When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist.

All she had to do was make the simplest of gestures – open her hands and let go her hold. She lifted one hand and moved the fingers of it; they responded, in surprise and...

At the beginning of human history, man lost some of the basic animal instincts in which an animal’s behavior is embedded and by which it is secured. Such security, like paradise, is closed to man...

The doctor was not, he thought, really sure that anyone else existed, and wanted to prove they did by helping them.

The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.

I took my pill at eleven. An hour and half later I was sitting in my study, looking intently at a small glass vase. The vase contained only three flowers — a full-blown Belle of...

La seriedad (…) se produce por una hiperestimación del tiempo. (…) En la eternidad, sin embargo, no hay tiempo: la eternidad es solo un instante, lo suficientemente largo para una broma.

The things I believed in dont exist any more. It’s foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see...

untuk hidup sendirian, orang harus menjadi binatang atau dewa–kata Aristoteles. ada yang ketiga: orang harus menjadi keduanya, yaitu seorang filsuf

The sky both exists and doesn’t exist. It has substance and at the same time doesn’t. And we merely accept that vast expanse and drink it in.

Existentialism is no mournful delectation but a humanist philosophy of action, effort, combat, and solidarity. Man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he...

Seeing the moving handmill, Kabir wept and said, “Alas, no one has survived the pressure of the two millstones (of the heavens and the earth). They left all their mighty empire and pomp and show...

ခ်မ္းသာသုခ ဆိုသည့္ေနာက္ကို တေကာက္ေကာက္ပင္ တစ္သက္လံုးလိုက္ေသာ္လည္း ဖမ္းမမိခင္ ေျမ၌ေလ်ာင္းစက္ရေလ့ရွိကာ ၊ မေတာ္တဆ ရရွိလွ်င္ေတာ့ ေတြေဝမႈိင္းျမ၍ ခဏမွ် သတိလစ္လိုက္ေသာ္ အပ္ေပ်ာက္ေျမက် ရွာမရျဖစ္ရတတ္သည္။

Death is the ultimate negative.

Modern Existentialism… is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now on its way to supplant Europe.

Anita felt like she finally understood why love was symbolized by the grotesque pumping organ, always threatening to clog, or break, or attack. Because the heart was the body’s engine, and love was an act...

Hiding my half existence behind the opaque walls of my skull, concealing it like a shameful disease, I did not consider the simple fact that the same thing could be occurring under other skullcaps, in...

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?

There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your...

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth…. Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations,...

When one contemplated Portia, when one contemplated Sharon, when one contemplated one’s own apparently pointless, utterly trivial being, the questions hung all around one, as urgent as knives at the throat. But the instant one...

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.