“If you want good luck; you must go out there and search for that luck!! Because luck is waiting for you to… — Temitope Owosela Copy Share Image
Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
“I wish I could see butterflies burst from cocoons Without tempering my amazement Knowing all beauty eventually dies.” — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“Here, in the vast expanse of nothingness, one confronts the depths of their own existence, unburdened by the trappings of modern life.” — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms. — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
“...not positive about the definition of existentialism but it seems like the opposite of nihilism in which case I suppose I may… — Autumn Copy Share Image
The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“HAMM: Yesterday! What does that mean? Yesterday! CLOV (violently): That means that bloody awful day, long ago, before this bloody awful day.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“Don't create unbelief or doubt in people's minds. When you do so you ruin their lives and you have nothing to give… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“God is perhaps full of hatred and hateful, incomprehensible and contradictory; but the more hideous is his face, the more he asserts… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The embodied self is the same person who woke to the world in a burst of visonary immediacy, who soon found that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“It is this outer reach of existential abnegation – the moment where subjective identity deserts itself and becomes enslaved without consciousness of… — Emily Apter Copy Share Image
“We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we… — Viktor Frankl Copy Share Image
“Tell me something. Do you believe in God?' Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. 'What? Who still believes nowadays?' 'It… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“Hume, Huxley, and other "immanent " psychologists, tried to identify the conception with a mere generalisation, so making no distinction between logical… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“What emerges from these separate strands of (modern) history is an image of man himself that bears a new, stark, more nearly… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“Seeing the moving handmill, Kabir wept and said, "Alas, no one has survived the pressure of the two millstones (of the heavens… — Mir Amman Copy Share Image
“Pity preserves things that are ripe for decline, it defends things that have been disowned and condemned by life, and it gives… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Look at all the stuff the Existentialists did. You can start with [Pablo] Picasso, you know, and then Francis Bacon and other… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
“The doctor was not, he thought, really sure that anyone else existed, and wanted to prove they did by helping them.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The Room is a drama that is also a comedy that is also an existential cry for help that is finally a… — Greg Sestero Copy Share Image
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“This seems plainly absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. One” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Nothing granted the providence to outdo time, and so he determined it was a spiritual lacking and trained harder in prayer.” — Kajoch Copy Share Image
Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We've become to living with absurdity, and that to make people to see how much so, I had to ratchet up the… — Paul Madonna Copy Share Image
The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Once you're alienated, you're on your own. That takes you to the world of the existential, where things just kind of float. — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
I am not a logician. I am an existentialist. I believe in this meaningless, beautiful chaos of existence, and I am ready… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of objective meaning from the universe.” — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The wilderness was dangerous; it infected me. I would be forever unmoored, inured to the safety of isolation.” — Scott Pearce Copy Share Image
“[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive.” — Steven L. Peck Copy Share Image
“Deep down, it's all baseball, no matter what kind of geometrical shape you play it with.” — Vernon D. Burns Copy Share Image