Existentialists Quotes

#1. She's studying the Existentialists this month. Asked for a study day last week to kill an Arab on the beach.

Christopher Moore

#2. If the existentialists are right, that life is meaningless, and if we acknowledge that, we are better equipped to find pleasure in small things.

Chloe Thurlow

#3. Animals are happier than humans because they're like furry little existentialists, all living in the moment. Their collective motto: live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking pelt.

Richard Jeni

#4. all the existentialists concur that it is through our choices that we become who we are.

Gordon Marino

#5. There's no need to fear the oblivion after we're gone if we never cared about the oblivion that came before we were born. Cheer up. Death obsessing is for boozy existentialists and bad poets.

Tom Jokinen

#6. In this way Byron's take on the human condition becomes closer to the fractured collage of 20th century existentialists: a conflicted human nature posited within a harsh and painful environment where self-less compassion is essential to human progress, but is rewarded with torture and suffering.

George Gordon Byron

#7. There are two kinds of existentialist; first, those who are Christian ... and on the other hand the atheistic existentialists, among whom ... I class myself. What they have in common is that they think that existence precedes essence, or, if you prefer, that subjectivity must be the turning point.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#8. Spirit and soul is horseshit of the worst sort. Obviously there are no fairies, no Santa Clauses, no spirits. What there is, is human goals and purposes as noted by sane existentialists. But a lot of transcendentalists are utter screwballs.

Albert Ellis

#9. Travel makes existentialists of us all.

Sarah Noffke

#10. Shaggy existentialists in frayed sandals, dilettantes by the score, spies by the portfolio.

Jan Morris

#11. Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don't like to joke.

Wislawa Szymborska

#12. You don't need to explain. This is your house too-you can go where you want," I reply. I smile as best as I can. "Except my room, of course."
"Why, you'll stab me with a kitchen knife if I do?" she jokes as I set the knife down onto Oma March's bedside table.
"Maybe," I answer.

Jackson Pearce

#13. You should not delay the good things in life. Just do them. Whenever you get a chance to do spiritual practice or seva, don't miss it. Those are the real precious moments of your life.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#14. If only sorrow could bring hope, I'd learn to live again

Britany Lopez

#15. One sin seldom mentioned is that of killing time.

Vera Nazarian

#16. To serve Mary and to be her courtier is the greatest honor we can possibly possess; for to serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there; and to live under her command is more than to govern.

John Of Damascus

#17. Christian families are under attack in America! The Communists, Masons, Atheists, Humanists, Evolutionists, and other Godless sickos want to destroy the family. Parents beware; the government wants your child!

Lester Roloff

#18. The spirit is larger than the body. The body is pathetic compared to what we have inside us

Diana Nyad

#19. I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.

Gordon Gee

#20. As you get older, as you become more sensitive, feel more, it becomes harder to make jokes. You censor yourself.

Alan King

#21. Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

Max Beerbohm

#22. I like dramas because there's a big overlap between film and fiction, so I feel relatively qualified to talk about plot and characterisation and that sort of thing.

Sarah Waters

#23. Everybody likes to indulge in a bit of ice-cream and junk food. If you want to be a top player you've got to be sensible in terms of what you eat.

Filo Tiatia

#24. I used to swallow people's energies, and then I learned, as I got older, that I'm too sensitive, and I had to stop doing that. Now I don't take as much in.

Banks