893 Quotes About Existentialism

Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.

I can't go on, I'll go on.

I was at a point where conversations like that really messed up with my painstakingly woven thought stream of nothingnesses.

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

Leave nothing for death but a burned-out castle

I think Dostoevsky was right, that every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.