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