Existentialism Quotes - Page 4

• Life begins on the other side of despair.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Inspirational, Life, Philosophical

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (1964). “Nausea”, p.9, New Directions Publishing

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• I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.

  Thomas Lynch

  People, Mourning, Funeral

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• I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe. - Julia Louis

  Alfred Dreyfus

  House, Feelings, Guilt

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• There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Philosophy, Decision, Joining

  Paul Ricoeur (2005). “The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations”, p.396, A&C Black

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• Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Despise

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• People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not worth living. In truth, there is no necessary common measure between these two judgments.

  Albert Camus

  Believe, Two, People

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.8, Vintage

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• The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.

  Rainn Wilson

  Being Single, Office, Style

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 19, 2008.

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• Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Death, Struggle, Men

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• Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

  Martin Heidegger

  Philosophy, Philosophical

  Martin Heidegger (2014). “Introduction to Metaphysics: Second Edition”, p.25, Yale University Press

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• I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.

  Albert Camus

  Life, World, Indifference

  Albert Camus (2002). “The Stranger”, Spark Notes

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• Contrary to what our brains are telling us, there's no mystical force that imbues a winner with a streak of luck, nor is there a cosmic sense of justice that ensures that a loser's luck will turn around. The universe doesn't care one whit whether you've been winning or losing; each roll of the dice is just like every other.

  Charles Seife

  Winning, Justice, Luck

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• He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Humility, Wish, Thrive

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Filled Up, Plunge, Filled

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.30, New Directions Publishing

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• Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children.

  Norman Mailer

  Children, Philosophy, Kind

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• To assume that one's existential task is completed when the individual is brought into right relation with society, that is, when the individual has been socialized, is to absolutize society and confuse society with God.

  Merold Westphal

  Tasks, Assuming, Individual

  Merold Westphal (2010). “Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society”, p.35, Penn State Press

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• All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Fate, Principles, Action

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Military, Philosophical, Numbers

  "On the Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg," Libération, June 22, 1953.

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• The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.

  Bill Moyers

  Commitment, Information, Gone

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

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (1964). “Nausea”, p.133, New Directions Publishing

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• Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Responsibility, Destiny, Men

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• A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this.

  Rudy Rucker

  Long, World, Littles

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• A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspiring cosmic history we find ourselves on this remote planet in a remote corner of the universe, endowed with intelligence and self-awareness. We should not despair, but should humbly rejoice in making the most of these gifts, and celebrate our brief moment in the sun.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Depressing, Humble, Self

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• I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Looks, Mess

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• All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a little more existential or cosmic.

  Josh Radnor

  Littles, Obsessed, Used

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Responsibility, Might, Mankind

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.165, Open Road Media

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