There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
Albert CamusTags: passion struggle existentialism
if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: meaning existentialism
Perhaps the Creator of this strange place knows us better than we know ourselves. Perhaps humanity was meant to eternally ponder the purpose and importance of our own existence. If we were assured of either, we’d be intolerable creatures.
Tiffany MadisonTags: knowledge humanity god religion existentialism chrisianity
A little more and I would have fallen into the mirror trap. I avoided it, but only to fall into the window trap: with nothing to do, my arms dangling, I go over to the window.
Jean-Paul SartreTags: existentialism
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
Jean-Paul SartreTags: freedom existentialism responsibility sartre
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 CiceroTags: pain suffering existentialism screaming
The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not.
Franz KafkaTags: present eternity heaven existentialism paradise forever present-moment
I rebel; therefore I exist.
Albert CamusTags: existentialism rebel
You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles when a carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself.
Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill.
Tags: existentialism
You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: existentialism
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