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Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'

Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism.

French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it is a cynical, individualistic school of thought that posits the self and personal choice as the measure of life's entire meaning.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

There's a real existential anxiety at having to exist not just in a generalised social framework, but a capitalist social framework.

Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works.

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.

I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.