existence Quotes

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

Acting is happy agony.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.