existentialism quotes from influential philosophers, authors and people
"I think; therefore I am."
905
"But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses."
938
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
1027
"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
1028
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."
1029
"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is."
1030
"Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken."
1031
"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."
1032
"The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
1033
"Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being."
1034
"The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor."
1035
"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?"
1036
"No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people."
1037
"Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object."
1038
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
1058
"What labels me, negates me."
1065
"The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived."
1078