356 quotes found
“Hes a typical existentialist. And thats a contradiction in terms if ever there was one.”
“I relish my life. Its the one I have. Its difficult, beautiful, painful, full of laughter, passing strange. Whatever else it is, whatever it brings its mine.”
“...freedom only gives you something to be sorry for.”
“When Sartre says man has been thrown into the world, he is alone, there is no God, we are responsible for what we are, what we do, I say yes!"The affirmative echoed around the woods. The dog pricke...”
“Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are insatiable, it is unquiet and tormented.”
“Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations.”
“Existentialism is no mournful delectation but a humanist philosophy of action, effort, combat, and solidarity. Man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering t...”
“I havent had any adventures. Things have happened to me, events, incidents, anything you like. But not adventures. It isnt a matter of words; I am beginning to understand. There is something I long...”
“By dint of saying that I'm not alive, I accept the fact that people cease to regard me.”
“Superfluity was the only relationship I could establish between these trees, these hedges, these paths. Vainly I strove to compute the number of the chestnut trees, or their distance from the Velle...”
“Battle day and night against the guile of oblivion...”
“I ascended, I ascended, I dreamt, I thought,but everything oppressed me. A sick one did I resemble, whom bad torture wearieth, and a worse dream reawakeneth out of his first sleep.But there is some...”
“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,To the last syllable of recorded time;And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death.- Macbeth Act V,...”
“I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darknness.”
“What are all the thoughts rattling in your mind when you're not listening to the answers to questions you ask?" -Jo, Boom”
“Existence is tedious, anyway.”
“With older people, it's quite different. They're reliable, they show you what to do, and there's solidity in their affection.”
“If we are unable to tolerate ourselves when we are alone, how can we expect anyone else to be enriched by our company? Before we can have a solid relationship with another, we must have a relations...”
“To Vic and other kids his age, the past didn't exist except as a quick, oversimplified Wikipedia snippets, that ultimately didn't matter because they weren't now. Dolores wonders if that is all she...”
“Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency.Those whom I deemedChanged to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed,Have aged and lost our old affinity:One has to change to stay akin to me.”
