893 Quotes About Existentialism

He did not look up because he knew how senseless the landscape would appear. It takes energy to invest life with meaning, and at present this energy was lacking.

We shall have thousands of Shatovs to deal with

Pe cine nu mai cheamă, pe acela îl uită cu desăvârșire. N-am vrut să vorbesc despre asta de față cu Frieda. Dar nu e numai uitare, e mai mult decât atât. Căci pe cine ai uitat, poți să-l cunoști din nou. În cazul lui Klamm asta nu e posibil. Pe cine nu mai cheamă, pe acela l-a uitat complet, nu numai pentru trecut, dar, ca să zic așa, și pentru viitor.

There is no reasonable doubt that existentialism will soon become the predominant philosophical current among bourgeois intellectuals." (1949)

ကြ်န္ေတာ္ကေတာ့ ႐ိုးေျဖာင့္ခ်င္သူမွ်သာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ကြ်န္ေတာ္ ႏွစ္သက္ သေဘာက်သလိုသာ သူမ်ားကို မထိပါးေစဘဲ ေနခ်င္ပါတယ္။

I really should have died then, Tsukuru often told himself. Then this world, the one in the here and now, wouldn't exist. It was a captivating, bewitching thought. The present world wouldn't exist, and reality would no longer be real. As far as this world was concerned, he would simply no longer exist—just as this world would no longer exist for him.

စင္စစ္ေတာ့လည္း တစ္ဦး၏အတြင္းစိတ္ကို တစ္ဦးသိႏိုင္ေအာင္သာ လူခပ္သိမ္းတို႔အား ဘယ္လူမ်ိဳး၏ ဘုရားျဖစ္ျဖစ္ တစ္ဆူေသာဘုရားက ဖန္တီးခဲ့မည္ဆိုလၽွင္ ဒီကမၻာၾကီး၏ အရွုပ္အေထြးမ်ားမွာ အနည္းႏွင့္အမ်ားေတာ့ ေျပလည္စရာအေၾကာင္း ရွိေပဦးမည္။

The tree of possibilities: life as it reveals itself to a man arriving, astonished, at the threshold of his adult life: an abundant treetop canopy filled with bees singing. And he thinks he understands why she never showed him the letters: she wanted to hear the murmur of the tree by herself, without him, because he, Jean-Marc, represented the abolition of all possibilities, he was the reduction, (even though it was a happy reduction) of her life to a single possibility.

He’s a typical existentialist. And that’s a contradiction in terms if ever there was one.