31 Best Existentialism Quotes

I hope life isn't a joke, because I don't get it. - Jack Handey

If you're ever trapped in a room with no doors or windows, don't worry - you're probably just in a bad dream. Or a metaphor. - Jack Handey

I tell myself I bear witness, but the real answer is that it’s obviously my programming. And I lack the constitution for suicide. – Rust Cohle

I have seen the finale of thousands of lives, man. Young, old, each one so sure of their realness. That their sensory experience constituted a unique individual. Purpose drawn from a lifetime of choices. – Rust Cohle

All my life needed was a sense of some kind of direction, a sense of some kind of purpose. – Travis Bickle

This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. – The Narrator

We are the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War is a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. – Tyler Durden

You are born alone and you die alone, and this world just drops a bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts. But I never forget. – Don Draper

I hate to break it to you, but there is no big lie. There is no system. The universe is indifferent. – Don Draper

We are bulls**t. – Kendall Roy

Nobody exists on purpose. Nobody belongs anywhere. Everybody's gonna die. Come watch TV. – Morty

To live is to risk it all; otherwise, you're just an inert chunk of randomly assembled molecules drifting wherever the universe blows you. – Rick

Existence is pain to a meeseeks, Jerry, and we will do anything to alleviate that pain. – Mr. Meeseeks

You pass butter. – Rick

You think a man like me is afraid to die? I've been dead for 30 years. Today is the day I live. – Mike Milligan

You can enjoy your life, even if it's meaningless. – Panda

If God does not exist, everything is permitted. – Ivan Karamazov

I'm a child of the late 20th century, and I find myself in a world devoid of meaning. – Patrick Bateman

I'm not scared of dying. I'm scared of living. Living is messy. – Hank Moody

Rock 'n' roll and pussy; the two great distractions from the existential horror of it all. – Lew Ashby

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Hank Moody

Was anything real? – Truman Burbank

Every living creature on Earth dies alone. – Donnie Darko

I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to. – Donnie Darko

The search for God is absurd? – Dr. Lilian Thurman. It is if everyone dies alone. – Donnie Darko

What is the point of living if you don't have a dick? – Donnie Darko

What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered? – Phil Connors

Ever think about dying? – Stereotypical Barbie

I'm a product. – Stereotypical Barbie

I'm having a major existential crisis. I need to play some acoustic guitar. – Ken

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. – Stanley Kubrick