893 Quotes About Existentialism

It's easy to pay with the blood of others.

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

To choose not to choose is still a choice for which you alone are responsible.

Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

The lived on the mistaken assumption that their lives mattered, that life was essentially fair, that it was all going to wind up happy in the end. I knew what they didn’t—that everything you care about will disappear, that deserving a happy life doesn’t mean you can get one, and that there really is no one in the entire world you can count on but yourself.

It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.

The sweetest realizations of life cannot be expressed with words.

Being is such a mystery that when one puts a lot of thought into it, the sense of wonder only increases. Albert Einstein has said: “The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.” Mystery reveals itself…and the paradox that it is not less mysterious for the revealing.

I've never been good with current events, she told us. I always keep getting bogged down with simple things, like 'why are we here?