893 Quotes About Existentialism

Even though I must approve my identification as a scientist and philosopher for the convenience of the people, in reality, I am nameless, formless and timeless.

We get anxious more with imaginations than actuality.

We create our own chains with which we bind ourselves and then we keep yelling as raving lunatics, why are we not free?

If you ask me what I live for, I'll say catharsis. And hope. And writing. I'll never be a defeatist

Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.

What you think I think of you is what you think of yourself

I am nobody, nobody is me,I hold nothing, nothing holds me.I belong to no one, no one belongs to.

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.

That’s what’s so wonderful about you, you’re so self-sufficient that I feel that you’ve created your own self.