No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing. — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Nihilism is…not only the belief that everything deserves to perish; but one actually puts one shoulder to the plough; one destroys.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We only have one life to live, and must go on with it to the end, that if we feel it is… — Susan Moody Copy Share Image
We isolate with every step, brick our exits, and seek deeper inside our soul for the boundary of existentialism, the essence... — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
Existentialism is possible only in a world where God is dead or a luxury, and where Christianity is dead. — Gabriel Vahanian Copy Share Image
“One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence… — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
“Our age reminds one of the dissolution of the Greek city-state: Everything goes on as usual and yet there is no longer… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Existentialists try to find the answer to something so simple and that is what nothing is. Nothing is nothing, and if he… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“Part of being of a true existentialist is wanting to be what we make ourselves be by the way we choose to… — Gary Cox Copy Share Image
The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
“My quietness is a consequence of my deeply entrenched nihilism. I don’t believe there is any real value in my or anyone… — Emily R. Austin Copy Share Image
“At any moment when you are you, you are you without the memory of yourself because if you remember yourself while you… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Absurdity is my favorite brand of humor because deep down inside, in our subconscious, it's all surrealism. It's all abstract. The world… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You know that trying to be a nihilist is real funny. Because you're doing something that you think requires effort. But basically… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“Next time we will look at this from a much more basic point of view and one antedating all zoology, which, glimpsed… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
For as to the dispersing of Books, that Circumstance does perhaps as much harm as good: Since Nonsense flies with greater Celerity,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“I haven’t had any adventures. Things have happened to me, events, incidents, anything you like. But not adventures. It isn’t a matter… — Jean-Paul Sarte Copy Share Image
“I am yet to find a happy computer, despite being the epitome of rationality. Likewise, I am yet to find a civilized… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Don't you understand? If that's the case, then - then everything is dicated by random chance! Somewhere, there's a universe where you… — Phillip Andrew Bennett Low Copy Share Image
“It was all so complicated, like something out of an existential play. Everything hit a dead end there, no alternatives left.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“A person is what he says and does; that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The Universe will now be set right. Made over to fit my unique view of what should be. Let Nihilism reign supreme! — Jim Starlin Copy Share Image
For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wake up in awe that I'm alive. I can't get over that part, so I guess it makes me kind… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Our greatest challenge today is to couple conviction with doubt. By conviction, I mean some pragmatically developed faith, trust, or centeredness; and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It’s maybe impossible to escape (your own head), but I guess the secret is the prison cell just gets bigger and bigger… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I feel like an expressionist nihilist deep in my heart. And I think nihilism can stop the wheel from going around, around,… — Tom Burke Copy Share Image
“You talk a lot about this amazing flow of time but you hardly see it. you see a women, you think that… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“Man, you see, swings between nihilism and spirituality. Man, you see, swings between utmost bliss and the feelings of utter despair. It’s… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of existentialist; first, those who are Christian...and on the other hand the atheistic existentialists, among whom...I class myself.… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
But why should a religious person be interested in a work like Heidegger's that many regard as the epitome of nihilism? For… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
