Jan Goericke

“Existentialism reveals that in trying to avoid responsibility, we end up avoiding freedom, and that in trying to avoid death, we end up avoiding life. Nihilism is thus seen as the result of our fear of death, and so the more we flee from death, the more nihilistic we become. To say that life is meaningless, as the existentialists do, is not to advocate nihilism but to combat it.”
― Nolen Gertz, Nihilism

“death is the condition that makes it possible for us to live life in an authentic fashion.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Existential Psychotherapy

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”
― Walter Kaufmann, Existentialism From Dostoevsky To Sartre

“By keeping death in mind, one passes into a state of gratitude, of appreciation for the countless givens of existence. This is what the Stoics meant when they said, “Contemplate death if you would learn how to live.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Existential Psychotherapy