Existenitalism Quotes & Sayings

Just as the weak, despairing person is unwilling to hear anything about any consolation eternity has for him, so a person in such despair does not want to hear anything about it, either, but for a different reason: this very consolation would be his undoing; as a denunciation of all existence. Figuratively speaking, it is as if an error slipped into an author's writing and the error became conscious of itself as an error; perhaps it actually was not a mistake but in a much higher sense an essential part of the whole production, and now this error wants to mutiny against the author, out of hatred toward him, forbidding him to correct it and in maniacal defiance saying to him: No! I refuse to be erased! I will stand as a witness against you; a witness that you are a second-rate author. — Soren Kierkegaard

I think I can only help to expose percussion to all sorts of people. The balance between the lighter and more serious side is important. — Evelyn Glennie

There's none so blind as those who will not listen. — Neil Gaiman

Parents have that special skill of making the truth, no matter how benign, an embarrassing thing. We all know this. — M O Walsh

but when people are long indifferent to us, we grow indifferent to their indifference. It — Charlotte Bronte

Man does not fear death, only the suffering. — Witold Gombrowicz