893 Quotes About Existentialism

Death is the ultimate negative.

As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it.

I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon.

Do I dream you? Or you dream me? Or does someone, something bigger than all' - her hands swept the vast constellations above them - 'this beauteous calamity, dream everything we see and more?

ممدوح فرج : يعني هي حلاوة ولا شيكولاته ؟ غسان مطر : انت عايزها ايه؟

To him, they looked like shadows that his wife had left behind. Size 7 shadows of his wife hung there in long rows, layer upon layer, as if someone had gathered and hung up samples of the infinite possibilities (or at least the theoretically infinite possibilities) implied in the existence of a human being.

The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.

When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still to see oneself living at great speed, right up to the moment of death.

This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither.