893 Quotes About Existentialism

Always know the shape you take—know it so well you can shift it to your purpose, so well the form gives way to formlessness again. What is a grain but a seed? And from a seed, you can grow anything. Like, say, a family.

I still liveAnd I feelThat I will never die;All my lifeAn infinite time

Te leven betekent strikt genomen niets anders dan dag voor dag zelfmoord op te schuiven.

All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach them.

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

We get sombre about death. Think about Charon the ferryman rowing the souls across the Styx to the Isle of the Dead. Pretty grim stuff. Unless you think that, perhaps, at times, old Charon rows souls back to the land of the living too. Perhaps I have merely gone to rest awhile…

Death is a continuation of my life without me...

The greatest form of retaliation is not loving your enemy but ignoring them.

Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral.