"From the moment that man believes neither in God nor in immortal life, he becomes “responsible for everything alive, for everything that, born of suffering, is condemned to suffer from life.” It is he, and he alone, who must discover law and order. Then the time of exile begins, the endless search for justification, the aimless nostalgia, “the most painful, the most heartbreaking question, that of the heart which asks itself: where can I feel at home?"

"Man disavows, and Deity disowns me.
Hell might afford my miseries a shelter;
Therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all
Bolted against me…"

"For anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful."

"What is
Death, so it be but glorious? ‘Tis a sunset;
And mortals may be happy to resemble
The Gods but in decay."

"If in one’s heart
He follows the path of sincerity,
Though he does not pray,
Will not the gods protect him?
As everything in life is but a sham,
Death is the only sincerity."

"If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which he has inflicted upon men, He would kill himself."

"Existentialism isn’t so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn’t exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing."

"You believe in God, and another does not believe in God, so your beliefs separate you from each other. Belief throughout the world is organized as Hinduism, Buddhism, or Christianity, and so it divides man from man. We are confused, and we think that through belief we shall clear the confusion; that is, belief is superimposed on the confusion, and we hope that confusion will thereby be cleared away. But belief is merely an escape from the fact of confusion; it does not help us to face and to understand the fact but to run away from the confusion in which we are. To understand the confusion, belief is not necessary, and belief only acts as a screen between ourselves and our problems. So, religion, which is organized belief, becomes a means of escape from what is, from the fact of confusion. The man who believes in God, the man who believes in the hereafter, or who has any other form of belief, is escaping from the fact of what he is. Do you not know those who believe in God, who do puja, who repeat certain chants and words, and who in their daily life are dominating, cruel, ambitious, cheating, dishonest? Shall they find God? Are they really seeking God? Is God to be found through repetition of words, through belief? But such people believe in God, they worship God, they go to the temple every day, they do everything to avoid the fact of what they are and such people you consider respectable because they are yourself."