A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am kept from throwing my neighbor into prison.
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more.
Everything is true, and nothing is true!
The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism. It is part reality and part nightmare
Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.
When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still to see oneself living at great speed, right up to the moment of death.
Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.
There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in. . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
Apparently there is no profit in the unique, or not enough to make it worthwhile to preserve. Ultimately it drains the life out of us, and existentialism starts to make more and more sense.
The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.
Uncertainty is the normal state.
Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action. )
Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing.