Existentialism is a philosophical irrational trend of thought. It believes that the meaning of human existence cannot be answered through rational thinking, emphasizing individuality, independence and subjective experience. Below I bring you the content of existentialist quotes, I hope it will be helpful to you!

Existentialist quotes

1) Existence precedes essence.

2) We suffer because we are free.

3) Others are hell.

4) The world is absurd and life is painful.

5) Man is first and foremost a creature that pushes himself toward a future and knows that he is doing just that.

6) I started my life in a pile of books, and I will undoubtedly end my life in a pile of books.

7) He is two years older than me? He has earned a lot of benefits from these two years.

8) How long this relationship can last should not be interfered by factors other than feelings, such as the law.

9) Medieval alchemists said: If you want the branches and leaves of a tree to reach heaven, its roots must go deep into hell.

10) Léon Bloy said: There are places in the human heart that do not yet exist, and pain will enter these places to make them exist.

11) Adonis said: I have a good impression of narcissus, but my love belongs to another kind of flower, and I can’t name it.

12) Rilke said: There is no victory at all, holding on means everything.

13) Dante said: Love has such a huge impact on my body that I completely surrender the initiative, like a walking zombie.

14) Treat works of art as transcendent achievements and believe that the production of every work is beneficial to the world.

15) There is necessary love between us; but at the same time we also realize that accidental love is needed.

16) I claim to be a savior supported by the people, but in fact I am saving my own life in private.

17) The inner poverty and feeling of uselessness made me hold on to heroism and be reluctant to let it go.

18) Human beings are like a seed accidentally falling into this world. They have no essence at all, they only exist. To establish their own essence, they must prove it through their own actions. Man is nothing but the result of his own actions.

19) In the eyes of old people, youth is wonderful. We can daydream a lot, fail, cry, and shine brightly. However, when we are young, we don’t know the beauty of it. We always talk about our sorrows without illness, or spend our youth decadently and passively. Only when we are no longer young can we realize the value of it.

20) The inner poverty and feeling of my own uselessness prompted me to hold on to heroism and be reluctant to let it go.

　21) I am myself everywhere, I cannot escape myself, I re-grasp myself from behind

　22) The world is absurd and life is painful

23) In order to make myself known to others, I should risk my own life. My position will not be a focus, but a starting point

　24) Hatred means recognizing the freedom of others

　25) To be a cold stone, to be a violent torrent, Be angry lightning, in short, do everything, just don’t be a human being!

　26) We suffer because we are free! Act, in the process of action, you form yourself, and you are yourself The result of action and nothing else.

27) When I am alive, I want to be the master of life, not its slave.

28) Man is a bunch of useless enthusiasm!

29) Man is first of all a creature that pushes himself towards a future and knows that he is doing just that - Sartre's famous saying< /p>

30) Take action. In the process of action, you form yourself. People are the result of their own actions, and nothing else.

A selection of existentialist quotes

1) Baudrillard said: Anyone who lives by meaning will eventually die by meaning.

2) Duras said: If a woman only has sex with one man in her life, it is because she does not like having sex. But one love story is more important and meaningful than having sex forty-five times.

3) William Wordsworth said: At that dawn, being alive is a blessing from heaven, being young is heaven.

4) Lu Xun said: There is no pride like the old days, when flowers bloom and fall.

5) Rilke said: Time cannot be calculated, years and months are invalid, and even ten years are equal to nothingness.

The artist is, not counting; mature like a tree?

6) Montaigne said: The activities of the mind are born with the activities of the body.

7) Antonioni said: A story about a husband and wife who have nothing to say to each other. But what was photographed this time was not their conversation, but their silence. Silent words. Silence becomes a negative space for speech.

8) Lu Xun said: Tragedy is to show people the most meaningful destruction in life.

9) Godard said: I am old now. The older you get, the deeper you think. I can no longer grasp things on the surface of the water. I think underwater.

10) Fernando Pessoa said: I am jealous of everyone because they are not me? This creates the main body of my daily depression, letting depression fill every bleak moment.

11) Rilke said: The soul has no temple, tears drip on the face.

12) Bresson said: When two people meet their eyes, what they see is not the other's eyes, but the other's gaze.

13) Godard said: There is a famous legend that Griffith was so moved by the beauty of his heroine that he invented the close-up to capture it in more detail.

14) Joyce said: Everyone’s life is composed of many days, one day after another. We travel from within ourselves and meet robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, and brothers in love. However, we always meet ourselves.

15) The world is absurd and life is painful.

16) People are both successful losers and failed winners.

17) People continue to become themselves in the process of continuous choices.

18) Human beings are first and foremost creatures who push themselves toward a future and know that they are doing just that.

19) I started my life in a pile of books, and I will undoubtedly end my life in a pile of books.

20) There is necessary love between us; but at the same time we also realize that accidental love is needed.

21) I claim to be a savior supported by the people, but in fact I am saving my own life in private.

22) The inner poverty and feeling of my own uselessness prompted me to hold on to heroism and be reluctant to let it go.

23) How long this relationship can last should not be interfered by factors other than feelings, such as the law.

24) Treat works of art as transcendent achievements, because the production of each work benefits the world.

25) Although the mission I chose is beautiful, noble and sacred, the responsibility is too heavy and in the end I am crushed under the weight.

26) If you realize that you are free, then God is nothing.

27) Others are hell.

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