existence Quotes

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.