Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

The fact we exist merely means we exist. That's all it means.

Life is a prize, but to live doesn't mean you're alive

The purpose of life is life.

I don't know how one should live - but I know that one should live.

Existence is not a mystery unless you think it has a meaning.

But what is life if you don't live it?

It is inconceivable that anything should be existing. It is not inconceivable that a lot of people should also be existing who are not interested in the fact that they exist. But it is certainly very odd.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence . . .

Well, what I don't get is why do we exist? I don't mean how, but why.' I watched the fireflies of his thoughts orbit his head. He said, 'we exist because we exist. . .we could imagine all sorts of universes like this one, but this is the one that happened.

You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.

Life is nothing but the expansion of love.

It is worth while dying, to find out what life is.

The meaning of life is to get meaning for life.

Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.

I think the meaning of life is life itself. We don't necessarily want to know what it is, but we want to live it. Hopefully, we'll go out fast without knowing it.

What is the meaning of life? It is too great a phenomenon to fit into any meaning.

The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me? It is impossible for there to be a person with no religion (i.e. without any kind of relationship to the world) as it is for there to be a person without a heart. He may not know that he has a religion, just as a person may not know that he has a heart, but it is no more possible for a person to exist without a religion than without a heart.

The meaning of life is that nobody knows the meaning of life.

Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.

Why does one exist? That's not my problem. One does exist. The thing to do is to take no notice but go at it on the run and to keep on going right on until you die.

I'm a teleological, existential agnostic.

Life is not measured by the time we live.

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.