Existential Quotes That Will Encourage Deep Thinking
Existence precedes essence. – Jean-Paul Sartre
To be is to do. – Immanuel Kant
If I cannot overcome the obstacles, I will create my own path.?
In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.? – Albert Camus
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.? – Jean-Paul Sartre
Everything in life is an omen.? – Paulo Coelho
Life begins on the other side of despair.? – Jean-Paul Sartre
Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning. – Jean-Paul Sartre
Even amidst fierce flames, the golden lotus can be planted.? – Sylvia Plath
There is only one really serious philosophical question, and that is suicide. – Albert Camus
The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself. – Albert Camus
Deep down, the individual is not up for sale. – Friedrich Nietzsche
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. – Friedrich Nietzsche
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become. – Carl Jung
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. – Epictetus
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one?s courage. – Anais Nin
Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it. – Albert Camus
Don’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day. – Albert Camus
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. – Albert Camus
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. -Jean-Paul Sartre
To exist is to dare to throw oneself into the world. -Simone de Beauvoir
If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance. -Albert Camus
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. -Jean-Paul Sartre
Existence precedes essence. -Jean-Paul Sartre
We are left alone, without excuse. -Jean-Paul Sartre
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. -Simone de Beauvoir
Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the value of it is nothing other than the sense you choose. -Jean-Paul Sartre
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us. -Jean-Paul Sartre
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman. -Albert Camus
I exist as I am, that is enough. -Walt Whitman
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Life isn?t as serious as the mind makes it out to be. – Eckhart Tolle
I think, therefore I am. I doubt, therefore I might be. – Unknown
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. – Albert Camus.
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. – Jean-Paul Sartre
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. – Simone de Beauvoir
The point is not to discover the meaning of life, but to create it. – Friedrich Nietzsche
I am my choices. I cannot not choose. – Jean-Paul Sartre
Our life is what our thoughts make it. – Marcus Aurelius
Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments. – Rose Kennedy
We are our choices. – Jean-Paul Sartre
Existence precedes essence. – Jean-Paul Sartre
I think, therefore I am. – Rene Descartes
Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. – John Lennon
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. – Soren Kierkegaard
The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates
It is not I who create myself, rather, it is I who am created. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you. – Jean-Paul Sartre
Existence is not a problem to be solved, it is a reality to be experienced. – Soren Kierkegaard
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. – Soren Kierkegaard
The meaning of life is to give life meaning. – Viktor E. Frankl
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. – Friedrich Nietzsche
I define myself by the limits that I set, not by the things that I reach. – Friedrich Nietzsche