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I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100. -- Woody Allen
Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you. -- Delmore Schwartz
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society. -- Anita Brookner
There is scarcely any passion without struggle. -- Albert Camus
Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children. -- Norman Mailer
One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Existentialism is possible only in a world where God is dead or a luxury, and where Christianity is dead. -- Gabriel Vahanian
Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us? -- Cornelia Funke
Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
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. -- William Barrett
As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in the truth of life, and it then appears as the only proposition of salvation which one can address to men. -- Simone de Beauvoir
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. -- Carl Sagan
The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it. -- Steven Wright
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst. -- Meg Ryan
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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
Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened. -- Archie Shepp
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
The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die. -- Soren Kierkegaard
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
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
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
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself. -- Martin Heidegger
Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism. There is no particular religious tradition in my work. There is only one psychological assertion that I would insist upon. That is: the SELF takes precedence. -- Stanley Elkin
Nothingness haunts Being. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Existence is tedious, anyway. -- Anton Chekhov
Uncertainty is the normal state. -- Tom Stoppard
Death is the ultimate negative. -- Tom Stoppard
We co-existed in peaceful detachment -- Tsitsi Dangarembga
I rebel; therefore I exist. -- Albert Camus
We are gods with anuses. -- Ernest Becker
Try again. Fail again. Fail better. -- Samuel Beckett
This existenitalist stuff sure is crap -- Daniel Younger
New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts. -- David Lynch
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I can't go on, I'll go on. -- Samuel Beckett
I want my name to mean me. -- Mark Haddon
I Think, Therefore I Am ... I Think ... -- David Ski
Existence is illusory and it is eternal. -- Albert Camus
Without awareness, we are not truly alive. -- James F.T. Bugental
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity. -- Simone de Beauvoir
One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away. -- Saul Bellow
Time is only linear for engineers and referees. -- Craig Ferguson
After awhile you could get used to anything. -- Albert Camus
Having just enough life to enjoy being dead. -- Jim Holt
All that is transitory is but a metaphor. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
tingkat dan sifat seksualitas seseorang meluas sampai puncak semangatnya -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Battle day and night against the guile of oblivion... -- Søren Kierkegaard
...freedom only gives you something to be sorry for. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Rien, rien n'avait d'importance et je savais bien pourquoi. -- Albert Camus
Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know. -- Albert Camus
Melalui musik, bahkan hasrat kita dapat meikmati dirinya sendiri -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Amid the pointing and the horror, the clean flame. -- William Faulkner
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, yadda yadda yadda. -- Robert Jackson Bennett
Death is a continuation of my life without me... -- Jean-Paul Sartre
I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darknness. -- Ohran Pamuk
We shall have thousands of Shatovs to deal with -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Amid the pointing and the horror the clean flame. -- William Faulkner
Innumerable arcs intersect and scatter into a vast indefinite sea. -- Ashim Shanker
Come, sleep and death; you promise nothing, you hold everything. -- Søren Kierkegaard
Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals. -- Ernest Becker
I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
dari sekolah militer kehidupan: apa yang tidak membunuhku membuatku kuat -- Friedrich Nietzsche
What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax. -- Michel Faber
Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable. -- Albert Camus
Information paints no picture, sings no song, and writes no poem. -- R.F. Georgy
saat cinta ataupun kebencia tidak berperan, tindaka perempuan akan biasabiasa saja -- Friedrich Nietzsche
apa yang dilakukan demi cinta, selalu terjadi diluar kebaikan dan kejahatan -- Friedrich Nietzsche
kesombongan kita paling tahan terhadap rasa sakit saat diri kita terluka -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In a single wave of meaning the triumphant purity of being. -- Boris Pasternak
You know, everything's a sort of lie, and then you die. -- Arthur K. Flam
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it. -- Anton Chekhov
To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing. -- Albert Camus
His face was neither handsome nor anything else. It just was. -- Tarjei Vesaas
This is the world, he thought. And I am in it. -- Nick Harkaway
You are the illusion. The person in the mirror is real. -- Isaac Hooke
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others. -- Hermann Hesse
Know yourselves- be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye. -- Peter Wessel Zapffe
perempuan belajar membenci dengan cara yang sama saat mereka--belajar melupakan cara memperdaya -- Friedrich Nietzsche
From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living. -- Arundhati Roy
The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Pure logic is the impossibility by means of which science is maintained. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood. -- Matthew Woodring Stover
Sometimes I couldn't figure it out, what all the living was for. -- Jane Hamilton
We have an infinite supply of information and yet we cannot read. -- R.F. Georgy
Existence is where the soul goes to learn how to interpret itself again. -- Duncan McNaughton
It is good to pray even if you do not believe in God. -- Vipin Behari Goyal
There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
And it's always better, isn't it, when you discover answers on your own? -- Veronica Rossi
What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil? -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
After ten pages I felt that Nietzsche was reading me, not I him. -- David Mitchell
dalam keramahan tidak ada kebencian terhadap manusia--inilah mengapa begitu banyak hal yang menjijikkan -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life? -- Andrew Sean Greer
Cada nueva posibilidad de la existencia, incluso la menos probable, transforma la existencia entera. -- Milan Kundera
Logica e de neclintit, dar aceasta nu-i rezista unui om care vrea sa traiasca. -- Kafka
We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening -- Zhuangzi
People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Saving and pinching to get married, you're losing the best time of your life. -- Muriel Spark
CLOV:Do you believe in the life to come?HAMM:Mine was always that. -- Samuel Beckett
Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it. -- Jules Renard
It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies. -- David Eagleman
It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths. -- Rollo May
kedewasaan seseorang: setelah menemukan kembali keseriusaan yang pernah dimilikinya saat masih kanakkanak, saat sedang bermain. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Te leven betekent strikt genomen niets anders dan dag voor dag zelfmoord op te schuiven. -- Stig Dagerman
All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought. -- David Eagleman
Sure, people can make you happy, but no one can stop you from being happy. -- Jason Daniel Chaplin
if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch. -- Jean-Luc Godard
To choose not to choose is still a choice for which you alone are responsible. -- Gary Cox
The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there. -- Ernest Becker
In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist. -- Albert Camus
Deep down, it's all baseball, no matter what kind of geometrical shape you play it with. -- Vernon D. Burns
ketidaksukaan pada yang kotor dapat menjadi sedemikian besar sehingga hal itu akan mencegah kita membersihkan diri -- Friedrich Nietzsche
apa? kamu mencari? kamu ingin membanyakkan dirimu menjadi sepuluh, seratus kali? kamu mencari pengikut? carilah nol! -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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