Existentialism Meaning In Life Quotes

“Everything is true, and nothing is true!”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“... nothing lasts long. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment - maybe a single pulse of some giant processor somewhere.”
― Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

“Alan had never been stabbed or shot or punctured or broken. Were scars the best evidence of living? If we have not survived something, and thus were certain that we'd lived, we could scar ourselves, couldn't we?”
― Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King

“We choose exile as a vantage point; from exile we look back on the rejected”
― James Wright, Above the River: The Complete Poems

“And you may find yourself in another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife
And you may ask yourself, "Well... how did I get here?"
Letting the days go by...”
― David Byrne

“Scheming is mediocre.”
― Vipin Behari Goyal, Tall Man Small Shadow

“Trezire, tramvai, patru ore de birou sau de uzină, masă, tramvai, patru ore de muncă, masă, somn; şi luni, marţi, miercuri, joi, vineri, sâmbătă, în acelaşi ritm — iată un drum pe care îl urmăm cu uşurinţă aproape tot timpul. Dar într-o zi ne pomenim întrebându-ne «pentru ce?» şi totul începe o data cu această oboseală uimită; «începe», iată lucrul important. Oboseala se află la capătul faptelor unei vieţi maşinale, dar ea inaugurează în acelaşi timp mişcarea conştiinţei. Ea o trezeşte şi provoacă urmarea. Urmarea, adică întoarcerea inconştientă în lanţ sau trezirea definitivă. După trezire vine, cu timpul, consecinţa ei: sinuciderea sau vindecarea.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“If it is death, I am dying every moment. If it is life, I am living every moment.”
― Vipin Behari Goyal

“-The burden of existence is bestowed upon birth.
-The gift of existence is bestowed upon birth.
Choose wisely, your life (and potential others' life) depend on it.”
― Kevin Focke

“Even as a child, when I lacked for nothing, I wanted to die: I wanted to surrender because I saw no sense in struggling. I felt that nothing would be proved, substantiated, added or subtracted by continuing an existence which I had not asked for.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn

“This was life. We had to learn to take the ending of something painful and let it become something else. Give it meaning. Use it as an opportunity to grow, to try something different, to be someone better.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Let Love Rule

“Death & birth are only small episodes in the great pilgrimage of the soul.
Your fear of death will disappear immediately the moment you come in contact with yourself. AND that opens up a totally new sky to be explored. Once you know that there's no death, all fear disappears.
The fear of the unknown, the fear of the dark. All fear disappears.
You start for the first time being the real adventurer.
You start moving into different mysteries that surround you.
Existence becomes for the first time your home.”
― Osho

“Suspension seems to be of our existence...: we neither know everything no do we lack knowledge entirely; our existence is neither necessary nor impossible. It is as possible that we hang suspended between everything and nothing, God and beast, the absolute and the nugatory”
― Gelven Michael

“Винаги съм вярвал, че Раят е място за хора, които цял живот са правили добро, само че не е така. Бог е прекалено милостив и щедър, за да вземе подобно решение. Раят просто е място за хора, които на земята са били истински неспособни на щастие. Тук ми казаха, че самоубийците получават възможност да изживеят живота си отново, защото не е речено, че ако не им е допаднал първия път, втория няма да им пасне. Но онези, които изобщо не си намират място на света, се озовават тук. И всеки от тях влиза в Рая по свой си начин.”
― Etgar Keret, The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God and Other Stories

“in the most decent sometimes sun
there is the softsmoke feeling from urns
and the canned sound of old battleplanes
and if you go inside and run your finger
along the window ledge you'll find
dirt, maybe even earth.
and if you look out the window
there will be the day, and as you
get older you'll keep looking
keep looking
sucking your tongue in a little
ah ah no no maybe

some do it naturally
some obscenely
everywhere.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Ces ténèbres, Dea les y avait en elle et Gwynplaine les avait sur lui”
― Victor Hugo

“Existence is just a singular metaphysical paradox of pampsychist eccentricity.”
― Tiago Meurer

“No matter how convincing and irrefutable I felt my train of thoughts to be, as well as that otherwise ideas that has led us all to the conclusion that life is meaningless I still had some obscure doubts as to the validity of the final outcome of my deliberations.

It was expressed as follows: I, that is my reason, have acknowledged that life is a rational. If there is nothing higher than reason (and there is not, and nothing can prove that there is), then reason is the creator of life for me. Without reason I can have no life. How then can reason to deny life when it is the creator of it? Or looking at it another way: if there were no life my reason would not exist, which must mean that reason is the offspring of life. Life is everything. Reason is the fruit of life and yet this reason rejects life itself. I felt that something was not quite right here.

Life is a senseless evil, that is certain, I said to myself. Yet I have lived and still live, and so to humanity has lived and still lives. How can this be? Why do men live when it is possible not to live?”
― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings

“She reached the end of the ranks, turned her mount round and began retracing her route. 'Who are you? I know who you are. What have you done? You have stayed with me since the very beginning. Soldiers, hear me! This day is already lost to history, and all that happens here shall remain for ever unknown. On this day, you are unwitnessed.

'Except for the soldier to either side of you. They shall witness. And I tell you this, those soldiers to either side of you, they are all that matters. The historians' scrolls have no time for soldiers like you – I know, for I have read hundreds of them. They yield a handful of words to speak of defeat or victory. Perhaps, if so warranted, they will make mention of great valour, extraordinary courage, but the weight of those words is no more and no less than those used to speak of slaughter and murder. Because, as we all know, one soldier can be hero and villain both.

'We have no place in their histories. So few do. They are not us – they were never us, and we shall never be them.”
― Steven Erikson

“He’d shown the world that there was something invincible inside of him—inside all of them—that could and would remain untouched, something that even a cruel world could not break.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Flaco the Owl Spreads His Wings

“There was only that bobbing bundle of stringy, dirty-blonde hair fading into a sea of other heads bobbing and faces coming and going, of storylines intersecting and entwining and then fraying only to become irretrievably lost in the interminable wave-pattern of curiosities fleeting and nothingness everlasting.”
― Casey Fisher, The Subtle Cause

“I would stay here for the rest of time in the ocean which was the universe which was the soul which was all that mattered.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane