Quotes about Existentialism
My life is utterly meaningless
— Soren Kierkegaard
for he who loves God without faith reflects upon himself he who loves God believingly reflects upon God.
— Soren Kierkegaard
What is certain is that to become of interest, for one's life to be interesting, has nothing to do with what you can turn your hand to but is a fateful privilege which, like every privilege in the world of spirit, can only be purchased in deep pain.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Either the individual becomes a knight of faith by assuming the burden of the paradox, or he never becomes one.
— Soren Kierkegaard
he who loves God without faith reflects upon himself he who loves God believingly reflects upon God.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Only in much fear and trembling is a human being able to speak with God, in much fear and trembling
— Soren Kierkegaard
Deep in my heart I care about God. What he going to think. And come to find out, he don't think. Just sit up there glorying in being deef, I reckon. But it ain't easy, trying to do without God. Even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain.
— Alice Walker
There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.
— George Lucas
It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
— Virginia Woolf
It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning
— Albert Camus
life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
— Frank Herbert
Know thyself? Dasein sensed then he couldn't know himself without dying. Death was the background against which life could know itself.
— Frank Herbert