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Every once in a while, everyone gets a little philosophical about life. Various whys and hows may hit someone after they’ve had one too many, on a random Tuesday night, or after they’ve done something so foolish it made them question Darwin’s survival of the fittest theory.

And as is often the case when faced with things we can’t fully comprehend, comedy comes into play. And in this case, we turn to existential memes to remind us that we are all bamboozled; some just less than others.

And while existential crisis memes and dark jokes about existentialism can’t “cure” these headache-causing musings, they can add some humor to the situation. Existential dread might not be the most fitting subject to joke about, but it’s one where if you don’t laugh, you’ll cry. And we opt to laugh it out, especially knowing that most of these thought-provoking questions about existence neither have answers nor solutions. So to existentialism memes we go!

Below, we’ve compiled a list of some of the best existential dread memes to give those “big” life questions a lighter color. So give yourself a break and enjoy these existential jokes without giving them much of a second thought. Because the more brooding you do, the harder it becomes to escape the vicious cycle. As always, upvote the memes that made you laugh and share this article with a friend who has been in their head too much lately!

#1

Quietly Accepting Defeat

why don't you just give up figurine

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    Deep Thoughts Pending

    phylosophy majors be like i gor a thought due tomorrow tweet meme

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    Bear Hall
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "It should be an original thought that answers at least one of the questions: Who? What? Why? Me?"

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    #4

    Run Into Nowhere

    there is nowhere you can run meme

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    Brian Jones
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    9-1-1, I’d like to report my computer for malicious sneakery

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    #6

    Philosophy Shocked Me Too

    Descartes looking shocked meme

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    #7

    Instant Mood Switch

    birth is a curse and death is a prison meme

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    Bear Hall
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Life is a sexually transmitted disease with 100% death rate.

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    #8

    Mood Ring Alternatives

    colour changing existential nail polish meme

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    sofacushionfort
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just buy artificial nails, factory-chewed

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    #10

    Overwhelmed by the ordinary

    a wave of intense feelings crashing like a tsunami meme

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    Weirdo with Internet
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I read on Tumblr once that you are chosen to mourn for someone who passed and doesn't have anyone who cares or remember s.

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    #12

    Broke and Philosophical

    my wallet is empty just like my soul pakalu papito meme

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    #15

    Collective Daydreams

    what is life but a mutually agreed upon hallucination meme

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    Saint Tim the Godless
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Everyone is fighting over who has the better imaginary friend!

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    #17

    Waiting for a Different Pick

    please god just choose another soldier already depressed teletubby meme

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    #18

    Feel Free To Scream

    you can start basically anywhere meme

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    sofacushionfort
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you’re a woman, it’s Karen-teed to earn you immortality on YouTube

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    #19

    Lost in Thought Mode

    sometimes i wonder if any of us are really here meme

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    Cloakred_Is_Bored
    Community Member
    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I turn off my phone finally at 2:00 am this isthmus face I see

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    #20

    Philosophy In Plain Sight

    the happier you are the sadder you end up meme

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    Craftsman 64
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How about a nice game of Squirt on Boxing Day? That will cheer you up James.

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    #21

    Midnight Curiosity Strikes

    googling how tall is jesus at 3am meme

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    #22

    Caught In The Middle

    i am in that awkward moment between birth and death meme

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    Shiva Ho
    Community Member
    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yup me trapped between world of the living and the dead

    #24

    Still Here, Still Fabulous

    the horrors persist but so do i meme

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    hitex
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ain't ever getting rid of me voluntarily until my time is up

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    #25

    More Like A Haunted House

    your body is a haunted house twitter meme

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    Cloakred_Is_Bored
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You ever shake ur head so hard u feel ur lil meaty brain knockin around? No? Just me… okay

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    #27

    Graveyard Draft Notice

    you are drafted into the skeleton war twitter meme

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    hitex
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ah this how Army of Darkness got its soldiers!

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    #28

    Existential Welcome Wagon

    your consciousness placed in a flesh prison to suffer victorian baby meme

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    #29

    Wins Count Too

    making small life changes but depression trying to outweigh the positives the incredibles meme

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    MichelleDonut
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yup, this is my therapist reminding me every week.

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    #30

    Mastering Calm Mode

    today i will not overthink racoon meme

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    MichelleDonut
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This has been my strategy for the last few years. Frankly, it's not working very well. Thoughts keep slipping in.

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    #33

    Dark Humor Survival Guide

    romanticise your sufferings, turn them into irony, if you can't be happy then at least be funny

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    Cloakred_Is_Bored
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You ever just look super depressed in the mirror so you try to laugh about it but end up feeling more depressed?

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    #34

    Existence Is Overrated

    we hope you like this place because we sure don't meme

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    Shiva Ho
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Damnit why does this keep happening to me!

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    #35

    Overthinking Gains

    my body is a machine of intrusive thoughts meme

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    #36

    Existential Crisis Mode

    waking up in an existential haze feeling like a doll meme

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    #37

    Running on Empty, Still Fighting

    it's me and my 3 hours of sleep against the whole world

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    #39

    The Eternal Walk Loop

    going for a walk and experiencing an epiphany circle meme

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    Shiva Ho
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A the Cycle of Life! It never ends well!

    #40

    Everyday Human Realness

    being a human starter pack meme

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    Saint Tim the Godless
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They forgot "I'm going to harm people who don't share my tribal identity!"

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    #41

    Mind’s Midnight Marathon

    we can try to figure out the exact moment all your hopes and dreams died meme

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    Shiva Ho
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Body: why don't you both just FO & die!

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    #42

    Manifesting With Conviction

    i am not delusional, i am simply manifesting meme

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    #43

    Divine Demand Drama

    i'm not apologizing to god grumpy cat meme

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    Cloakred_Is_Bored
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’m gonna finally die and gods gonna be like, this is the little s**t that has been refusing to pass into the endless void!

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    #44

    Brain Fog Olympics

    the thoughts immediately rushing into my cerebrum ghouls meme

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    #45

    Everyday Girl Power

    shout out to the girls that exist, you're so strong meme

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    Whiskey Tango Delicious
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The grammar police in me: "THE GIRLS THAT EXIST!" now I'm strong

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    #46

    Another Day, Same Mystery

    another day begins and no one asks why toy story meme

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    Shiva Ho
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In reality there's no such thing as a Day, it's just a made up excuse to keep slaving on hoping for things to change! From the sun's perspective it's always Day!

    #47

    Entry Requirements, Redefined

    you must be this tall to enter the void meme

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    Cloakred_Is_Bored
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No! I’m too short. Damn my abnormally short everything

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    #48

    Galactic Raccoon Wisdom

    god gives his silliest battles to his ost tragic of clows

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    Beth H
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm laughing so hard at this

    #49

    Welcome To Bachelor Life

    moving out and being independent living in miserable conditions meme

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    #50

    Dark Humor at the Drive-Thru

    you already experienced the eternal nothingness nihilist arby's meme

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    #51

    Muscles Over Meaning

    body builders are the only ones not suffering from existential ennui meme

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    Shiva Ho
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yea who needs brain cells when you're buffed?

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    #52

    Mood-Matching Recommendations

    netflix sugesting giving up completely meme

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    Shiva Ho
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No chance in hell things will get better!

    #53

    Monday Mood Check

    lets gt this break a skeleton looking at itself in the mirror meme

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    Libstak
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Me right now, actual bread from supermarket...how did this become so hard to do?

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    #54

    Oops, Here We Go Again

    i say never again and then i do it again pakalu papito meme

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    Shiva Ho
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Damnit Cycle of Life stop running me over!

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    #55

    Worth It or Just Paper?

    looking miserable after finishing highschool for a paper meme

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    #56

    Moment of Sudden Realization

    i just remembered i exist. scared and excited meme

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    Libstak
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thinking about every life event I must've forgotten or rarely thought about and realising pieces of me are dead and gone but there is a whole new me in the now....which also will be dead and gone tomorrow.

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    #58

    Adulting Mood Swings

    quarter life crisis meme

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    #59

    Time Is Just a Construct

    when everyone is putting hopes on next year but time is an abstract concept leonardo di caprio meme

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    Shiva Ho
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Time is an illusion, and lunch time doubly so!

    #60

    Magic in Motion

    everything is in a constant state of transformation tweet meme

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    #61

    Out of His League

    i was too existential for him kafka metamorphosis meme

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    #62

    Warped Whisker Wonders

    does your feline like to play with the spacetime continuum meme

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    Holy Shimmering Sheeps541t
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She's wrapped around my arm currently, purring happily away to herself cos "I had big belly rubs"

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    #64

    Wait, How Long Was I?

    suddenly regaining my consciousness meme

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    #67

    Better to Play Along

    realizing that life has no meaning drake meme

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    Shiva Ho
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Keep believing the lies & pretending that everything is going to alright in the end... then you die & realized you were right!

    #68

    Embracing Your Inner Chaos

    don't beat the demons live in harmony with them meme

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    #70

    Late Night Mind Games

    existential crisis hitting my brain meme

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    Shiva Ho
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's like looking into the mirror!

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    #71

    Midnight Overthinking Club

    unable to sleep because of an existential crisis meme

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    Libstak
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wonder if all the little critters that make up my human biosphere have these thoughts too?

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    #72

    Brainstorm Buddies Unite

    me and the voices in my head becoming friends meme

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    #73

    Endless Emotional Loop

    i freak out and decide i don't really care cycle twitter meme

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    #74

    Fresh Starts Brewing

    existential text core-core meme

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    Libstak
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is a whole other level of grind.

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    #75

    Existential Party Fails

    they don't know this life of partying is meaningless meme

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    #76

    Roommates From Another Dimension

    it's my emotional support delusion meme

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    #77

    Otherworldly Excuses Only

    sorry i didn't text meme

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    #78

    The Grind Never Ends

    there's no point in anything anyway meme

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    #79

    Dark Humor Deli Special

    what's cool is the sweet, irrevocable embrace of death nihilist arbys meme

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    Dela Bee
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    *nervous laugh* Yeah, a million dollars is SO uncool. It's also uncool to be poor. All the super rich should give each poor person a million dollars each, really rub in their uncoolness, ya know? *more nervous laughter in poor*

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    When Dreams Get Specific

    play that dream where im eating grocery store suchi meme

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    Whiskey Tango Delicious
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think this is my first down vote. Does this meme even need to exist in our mortal coil?

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