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Existentialist Quotes

Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms.

Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms.

Rudolf Bultmann
Doe, Want, Existentialist
Rudolf Karl Bultmann, Schubert Miles Ogden (1985). “New Testament and mythology and other basic writings”

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Men, Existentialist, Anguish
Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.12, Open Road Media

"To be is to do," says the existentialist. "One only becomes real (human) at the point of action."

Leo Buscaglia
Real, Action, Existentialist
Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don't like to joke.

Wislawa Szymborska
Serious, Existentialist, Jokes
Wisława Szymborska (1981). “Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems”, p.9, Princeton University Press

Alexander Trocchi was an existentialist. He was looking at an alienated artist in the post-war period. It's modern because it applies now as well.

Tilda Swinton
War, Artist, Existentialist
Source: www.nerve.com

[Albert Camus] was not an existentialist!

Catherine Camus
Existentialist

Of course, [Albert Camus] wasn't an existentialist, but he was a committed man. He was a man of combat. It wasn't for nothing that he directed the Resistance journal called Combat.

Catherine Camus
Men, Resistance, Existentialist
Source: www.spikemagazine.com

I am a confectionery-based existentialist.

Bill Bailey
Funny, Humor, Existentialist

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