“Death is the impossible possibility, the one which cancels every other possibility.”— Nicola Abbagnano
“There is an appalling void in me. Sometimes I feel I could stick my fingers in my ears and scream.”— Georg Büchner
“What is the point of it all? Not leaving the world a better place, not making a lasting contribution, but simply passing the time as comfortably as possible.”— Margaret Drabble
“What is the point of all of this? The point of all of this is that no one knows what the point of all of this is.”— Bret Easton Ellis
“A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe, 'The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.'”— Stephen Crane
“The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.”— Walter Kaufmann
“What's the use of prolonging an existence that could only be a accumulation of new sufferings?”— Raymond Queneau
“Once we have grasped the fact that we are living in a world of purposelessness, we are seized by a feeling of freedom.”— Peter Weiss
“There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.”— Simone de Beauvoir