Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?

kedewasaan seseorang: setelah menemukan kembali keseriusaan yang pernah dimilikinya saat masih kanakkanak, saat sedang bermain.

Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

HAMM:Scoundrel! Why did you engender me?NAGG:I didn't know.HAMM:What? What didn't you know?NAGG:That it'd be you.(Pause.)

A sense of his own identity came upon him with sudden force, and he felt the power of it. He was himself, and he knew what he had been.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

With older people, it's quite different. They're reliable, they show you what to do, and there's solidity in their affection.

sesuai dengan diri kita, kita semua purapura lebih sederhana dari yang sebenarnya: inilah cara dimana kita dapat bersantai dari orang lain

We call love what binds us to certain creatures only by reference to a collective way of seeing for which books and legends are responsible.

We only have one life to live, and must go on with it to the end, that if we feel it is meaningless, then we ourselves must give it meaning.

When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.

Someone's got to do some more research, but I would really like to know: when a CBT therapist really gets distressed, who does he go see?

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

There is no reasonable doubt that existentialism will soon become the predominant philosophical current among bourgeois intellectuals." (1949)