#existentialist quotes

[evilveined]

The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky 

[bugs-inamber]

You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after - lightly because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again. Also, you have the feeling someone wore it before you and someone will after.

Louis Erdrich, Love Medicine

[quotesechoes]

Do you know that there comes a midnight hour when everyone has to throw off his mask?

Either/Or, Soren Kierkegaard

[oblivionrevisited]

[psykhe-delos]

“Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.” - Jean-Paul Sartre

[melancholy021]

I am the weakest. And because I can accept that I am the weakest means that I am strong. Stronger than anyone else. Because strength is not how you can fight the injustice of this world, but rather accepting that there are things that you can and cannot do. Acceptance is a very complex thing. It doesn't truly mean that you will truly take in everything and be content with it. It is much more intricate than that.

Me

[saidbest]

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[saidbest]

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Henry David Thoreau