“There comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Humans and nature can never be friends! Nature will never hesitate to starve you in the drought, drown you in the rain,… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life.… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The hunger of the spirit for eternity - as fierce as a starving man's for bread - is much less a craving… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
“Now, old and dying or dead already, and we have mostly acclimatized to the absurdity of daily life in the fourth decade… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
The refusal to belong to any school of thought, the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of beliefs whatever, and especially… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It wasn't the New World that mattered...Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“I realized that there was no half-way house between non-existence and this flaunting abundance. If you existed, you had to exist all… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“judgment is the most important faculty we have. An animal, or a man, may get on very well without ‘abstract attitude’ but… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“That is the idea I shall try to convey when I say that man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Think of it : zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth, all these… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“As for the significance of my nihilism…in a word, it is the foundation of my thoughts. The goal of my activities is… — Mikiso Hane Copy Share Image
“Strangman shrugged theatrically. "It might ," he repeated with great emphasis. "Let's admit that. It makes it more interesting—particularly for Kerans. '… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“Elliott was disarmingly bright, according to everyone who knew him, an avid reader of Dostoevsky, Kafka, Beckett, Stendhal, Freud, the Buddha, all… — William Todd Schultz Copy Share Image
When the movie 'Sliding Doors' came out, it almost sent me into existential crisis because I think about that all the time.… — Jessica Rothe Copy Share Image
To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The deflation, or flattening out, of values in Modern art does not necessarily indicate an ethical nihilism. Quite the contrary; in opening… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior… — Armond White Copy Share Image
The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context. In the unreal realm of… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“I hadn't known Chancel very well, but ten days earlier I had seen him laughing with the others around the Christmas tree.… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Bergman was the first to bring metaphysics - religion, death, existentialism - to the screen. ... But the best of Bergman is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I went through this kind of existential crisis. I was going through a breakup; I tore my ACL and my meniscus and… — Gus Dapperton Copy Share Image
It's a waste to chase the pipe dream of a magical tiny theory that allows us to make quick and detailed calculations… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
For me nihilism is a stage of life being meaningless. But there is good in the bad. The stages I go through… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“Let’s act like sphinxes, however falsely, until we reach the point of no longer knowing who we are. For we are, in… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“What helped me survive was realizing that an antidote to nihilism is to create meaning in all aspects of our lives. Making… — Lee Lipsenthal Copy Share Image
It often happens that the universal belief of one age of mankind — a belief from which no one was, nor without… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Maybe it's not logical. I don't know. I don't care. I've been asked didnt I think it odd that I should be… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“To him, they looked like shadows that his wife had left behind. Size 7 shadows of his wife hung there in long… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
