It is necessary to fall in love. . . if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.
Apparently there is no profit in the unique, or not enough to make it worthwhile to preserve. Ultimately it drains the life out of us, and existentialism starts to make more and more sense.
Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children.
There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither.
It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism. It is part reality and part nightmare
I rebel; therefore I exist.
I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.
I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.
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, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.
Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.
Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.
I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.