Existentialism Quotes - Page 5

• Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.

  Delmore Schwartz

  Mean, Baths

  Delmore Schwartz (1950). “Vaudeville for a princess, and other poems”

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• The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber.

  Michael Mullen

  Thinking, Cyber, Threat

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• Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Nature

  Albert Camus (2012). “Caligula and Three Other Plays”, p.104, Vintage

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• One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Death, Existence Of Life, Stills

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr”, p.2, U of Minnesota Press

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• Memento mori - remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour?

  Leo Tolstoy

  Stupid, Mind, Important

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, p. 209, 1909.

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• I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, People, Needs

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• Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Believe, America

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• To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Destruction, Appropriate

  "Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Part 3: Being-For-Others, 1943.

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• This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither.

  Martin Heidegger

  Characteristics

  "Martin Heidegger". Book by Martin Heidegger (p. 87), 1978.

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• Existentialism is possible only in a world where God is dead or a luxury, and where Christianity is dead.

  Gabriel Vahanian

  Luxury, World, Christianity

  Gabriel Vahanian (2009). “The Death of God: The Culture of Our Post-Christian Era”, p.227, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But who would do the desiring? And what would a desired outcome be? That carbon-based life is inevitable? Or that sentient primates are life's neurological pinnacle? Are answers to these questions even possible without expressing a profound bias of human sentiment? Of course humans were not around to ask these questions for 99.9999% of cosmic history. So if the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Profound, Cosmos, Purpose

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• We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Want

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  For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

  Carl Sagan

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Carl Sagan (1997). “Contact”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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• Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern.

  Paul Tillich

  Attitude, Infinite, Concern

  Paul Tillich (1968). “The Courage To Be”

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• Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Judging, Guilt, Witch

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.66, Penguin

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• It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Certain, Anguish

  "Being and Nothingness". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943.

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• Words are loaded pistols.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Thought Provoking, Pistols, Loaded

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

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• I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.

  Sean Lennon

  Thinking, Trying, Use

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

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• It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.

  Matthew Woodring Stover

  Bad Mood, Easy, Mood

  Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.992, Del Rey

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• I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Existence

  "Nausea". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1938.

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• Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Opposites, Species

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2003). “A Nietzsche Reader”, p.250, Penguin UK

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• The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Levels, Can Do

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• We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Episodes, Regard, Our Lives

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.299, Oxford University Press

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• Uncertainty is the normal state.

  Tom Stoppard

  Normal, States, Uncertainty

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• The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Dies, Loses

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book II, (14), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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