Being Existentialism Quotes

#1. This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither.

Martin Heidegger

#2. The very fact of being human panics us into the most grotesque play-acting imaginable; and we deal in absurdities to keep life from being a total waste, like one constant jacking-off party.

Hal Bennett

#3. I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.

Rabih Alameddine

#4. Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree.

Hideki Tojo

#5. Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence, a being which exists before it can be defined by any conception of it. That being is man ...

Jean-Paul Sartre

#6. I started out a human being. But pretty much had all the humanity wrung out of me after passing the Bar and practicing law for ten years. Not sure what I am now.

Jeffrey Rasley

#7. Remember Motown? Not just the driving music that swept the nation and the world, but the vibrant energy of the Motor City itself, symbolizing the heyday of America. Today, a derelict Detroit is testament to what America has squandered and what it has become.

Gerald Celente

#8. Nothingness haunts Being.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#9. And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

John Crowe Ransom

#10. You want to know what human sentience is? It's the only thing in the universe capable of doubting its own existence.

Foz Meadows

#11. The question of being is the darkest in all philosophy.

William James

#12. When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist.

Noah Cicero

#13. Sometimes it felt like I was carrying pieces of human flesh back home with me, not negatives. It's as if you are carrying the suffering of the people you have photographed.

Don McCullin

#14. Heaven, or the kingdom of God, is easy if e work at it hard, but hard if we work at it easy.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#15. Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

Anita Brookner

#16. In a single wave of meaning the triumphant purity of being.

Boris Pasternak

#17. I don't complain about the horror of life; I complain about the horror of my life. The only fact I worry about is that I exist and suffer and can't even dream of being removed from my feeling of suffering.

Fernando Pessoa

#18. Part of being of a true existentialist is wanting to be what we make ourselves be by the way we choose to act, as opposed to making excuses for the way we act and regretting it.

Gary Cox

#19. Have you ever felt in your inmost being, the conscience of others?' again she was trembling, the words were not releasing her. 'It's intolerable you know

Simone De Beauvoir

#20. You can survive and strive in life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.

Robin Wright

#22. The day you realise how fragile your civilisation across the natural forces is, it may be too late to build a sounder one! All realisations must happen today, right now!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#23. When I was 17, I was at La Coupole brasserie, and Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir asked me to join them at their table. They were fascinated that I'd watched their programme on existentialism back home and wanted to understand nothingness and being.

Jerry Hall

#24. I've always liked the idea of being a father. And I've always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#25. Those three words, Monday Night Football, resonate like no other.

Al Michaels

#26. I Think, Therefore I Am ... I Think ...

David Ski

#27. Never forget where you came from. That's what I think when I walk into a cave.

Demetri Martin

#28. Solitude, the joy of being alone, stems from, as well as promotes, a state of maturity and inner richness.

Neel Burton

#29. Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often - and in my inmost self perhaps all the time - I doubt whether I am a human being.

Franz Kafka

#30. Sure, people can make you happy, but no one can stop you from being happy.

Jason Daniel Chaplin

#31. He had not the benefit of existentialist terminology; but what he felt was a very clear case of the anxiety of freedom - that is, the realization that one is free and the realization that being free is a situation of terror

John Fowles

#32. Having just enough life to enjoy being dead.

Jim Holt

#33. Dasein is a being that does not simply occur among other beings. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that in its being this being is concerned about its very being. Thus it is constitutive of the being of Dasein to have, in its very being, a relation of being to this being.

Martin Heidegger