Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“CLOV: Do you believe in the life to come? HAMM: Mine was always that.” — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“Fate will allow the world Only to glimpse him, then rob it of him quickly.” — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
“Everything in the universe denies nothing; to suggest an ending is the one absurdity.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It's like practicing pole vaulting your entire life, and then getting to the olympics and saying, ‘what the hell did I want… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Logic and reasoning, which might show the absurdity of such dreams of bliss and revenge, are to be thrust aside.” — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Even as I think them, the words lose their context, dissolve into grains of absurdity in the vast ocean of day-to-day hunger.” — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . .… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Production for the sake of production - the obsession with the rate of growth, whether in the capitalist market or in planned… — Felix Guattari Copy Share Image
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth…… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dasein is a being that does not simply occur among other beings. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that in… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death in… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I was writing this really long joke about the smell of poop, and I was like, 'What am I doing with my… — Kurt Braunohler Copy Share Image
“the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering..… — John Green Copy Share Image
“To act is literally to manifest preference about one set of possibilities, contrasted with an infinite set of alternatives. If we wish… — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
“There are two inevitable conditions of life, confronting all of us, which destroy its whole meaning; (1) death, which may at any… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“We have been cut off, the past has been ended and the family has broken up and the present is adrift in… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Existentialism “every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind,” we have entered the familiar Wordsworthian Romantic territory in which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There wasn't a single item of importance [in the newspaper]. A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and… — Abe Kōbō Copy Share Image
In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Continental thinkers have been obsessed with bourgeois man as representing the worst and most contemptible failure of modernity, which must at all… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“But today’s society is characterized by achievement orientation, and consequently it adores people who are successful and happy and, in particular, it… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“There is nothing how-so-ever absurd which is not defended by some theologian.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Sartre turns love into a ‘battle between two hypnotists in a closed room’.” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“It's a new world we gotta build - founded on love, tempered by reason.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image