The 50 Best Existentialist Phrases

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Sherman Hoover

I leave you the best existential phrases from excellent authors such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Friedrich Nietzsche, Franz Kafka, Woody Allen, Ralph Waldo Emerson and many more.

You may also be interested in these phrases of philosophers.

-It is solely up to you to give meaning to your life.-Jean Paul Sartre.

-I did an existentialism test. I left all the answers blank and got a 10.-Woody Allen.

-Looking for what is true is not looking for what is desirable.-Albert Camus.

-The world is of course nothing except our conception of it.-Anton Chekhov.

-Man is nothing more than what he makes of himself.-Jean-Paul Sartre.

-Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.-Jean-Paul Sartre.

-We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are, that is the fact.-Jean-Paul Sartre. 

-Life begins on the other side of despair.-Jean-Paul Sartre. 

-Remember how often in human history the saint and the rebel have been the same person.-Rollo May.

-Try again. Fail again. Fail better.-Samuel Beckett.

-You are free and that is why you are lost.-Franz Kafka.

-If we have our why of life, we can bear almost any how.-Friedrich Nietzsche.

-Be joyful, despite having considered all the facts.-Wendell Berry.

-No existence can be validly realized if it limits itself.-Simone de Beauvoir.

-This is your life and die moment by moment.-Chuck Palahniuk.

-Convictions could be more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies.-Friedrich Nietzsche.

-There is hardly any passion without a fight.-Albert Camus.

-I rebel, therefore I exist.-Albert Camus.

-I want my name to mean to me.-Mark Haddon.

-Some men become the person they were born to.-Sheenagh Pugh.

-The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, simply indifferent.-Carl Sagan.

 -You are the music while the music lasts.-T.S. Eliot.

-All life is an experiment. The more experiments you do, the better.-Ralph Waldo Emerson.

-Man is condemned to be free, because once in the world, he is responsible for everything he does.-Jean-Paul Sartre.

-All power is in essence power to deny mortality.-Ernest Becker.

-Only after you have lost everything are you free to do anything.-Tyler Durden.

-The truth is that everyone is bored and dedicated to cultivating habits.-Albert Camus.

-Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.-Paul Tillich.

-Everything transitory is nothing more than a metaphor.-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

-The man of knowledge must not only love his enemies, he must also be able to hate his friends.-Friedrich Nietzsche.

-Things die. All things die.-Kurt Vonnegut.

-There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.-Jean-Paul Sartre.

-We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are human.-Kurt Vonnegut.

-The world is full of little joys; art consists in knowing how to distinguish them.-Li Po.

-Science produces desire, which produces struggle, which produces suffering.-Li Po.

-The purpose of psychotherapy is to free people.-Rollo May.

-Fight is what it means to be alive and free.-David Budbill.

-The best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly to the problems of God and of faith.-Ernest Becker.

-Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.-Joshua Loth Liebman.

-A first sign of the beginning of understanding is wishing to die.-Franz Kafka.

-Without consciousness, we are not really alive.- James F. T. Bugental.

-Paradise does not exist, but we must strive to be worthy of it.-Jules Renard.

-Although science has given us many wonders, it has also spoiled many of our pleasant dreams.-Lu Xun.

-Nobody can advise and help you, nobody. There is only one way, go inside.-Rainer Maria Rilke.

-There is something in the human personality that resents clear things, and conversely, something that attracts puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.-Stanley Kubrick.

-To stay or go, amounts to the same thing.-Albert Camus.

-If man simply sat and thought of his immediate end and his horrible insignificance and loneliness in the cosmos, he would surely go mad, or succumb to a numbing or soporific sense of worthlessness. Because, you might wonder: why should I bother to write a great symphony or fight for a living, or even love another, when I am but a momentary microbe on a speck of dust circling the unimaginable vastness of space? -Stanley Kubrick.

-People who do not know the horror of death, are probably not surprised by it.-Lu Xun.

-It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.-Rollo May.

-Youth ends when selfishness dies, maturity is born when one lives for others.-Hermann Hesse.

-If you want good luck, you should go out there and look for it, because it is waiting for you to go and look for it.-Temitope Owosela.


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