The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
He not busy being born is busy dying.
What is to give light must endure burning.
But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
Life should be lived to the point of tears.
One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
Man is condemned to be free.
It is up to you to give life a meaning.
Life is a useless passion.
To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live – moreover, the only one.
I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn’t frighten me.
Being is only Being for Dasein.
Who am I? What will I be? Why am I here? Where am I going?
Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
The trouble is, you think you have time.
I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party and I attended with my real face.