“Fate is the cruelest of masters, taking Life when it pleases or at random, handing Rigged decks to whom it pleases, cheating… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“What is the point of our lives? There isn't any. I can't seem to decide how much horror and how much joy… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
“Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We are called to reach out to those who find themselves in the existential peripheries of our societies and to show particular… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Yes, and I have training dealing with deep, existential questions,” Dahl said. “The way I’m dealing with it right now is this:… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
In the doctrine of the world and humankind as 'will to power and nothing else', Heidegger identified not an antidote to nihilism,… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
“That's something we all want to know, isn't it? Is there a "purpose" to our form and substance? Or are we simply… — Peter Sinn Nachtrieb Copy Share Image
The existential attitude is one of involvement in contrast to a merely theoretical or detached attitude. "Existential" in this sense can be… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“One persistent attempt to find a thread in the history of mankind focuses on the notion of Reason. Human history, on this… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
“One day about a month ago, I really hit bottom. You know, I just felt that in a Godless universe, I didn't… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“But despair and nihilism had been eating into me for years. The more I saw of the sad and futile dead, hovering… — Mike Carey 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
“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
Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
People have to be engaged. Enough of nihilism! Enough of emptiness and defeatism! Fighting for a better world is not only the… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
I guess I worry about weird existential things, like how do we spend our final act. This is a very emotional question.… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you, novice, that the absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities, and perhaps nothing… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism. There is no particular religious tradition in… — Stanley Elkin Copy Share Image
Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
“You live in a deranged age - more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
In Nietzsche's view nihilism is not a Weltanschauung that occurs at some time and place or another; it is rather the basic… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“Death was an existential catastrophe, a rip in the soft upholstery with which humanity padded over a hard uncaring universe, but it… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“the sky here's very strange. I often have the sensation when I look at it that it's a solid thing up there,… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
“What an absurd torture for the artist to know that an audience identifies him with a work that, within himself, he has… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
Christianity - An old metaphysical romance, filled with marvels, contradictions, and absurdity, born in the ardent imagination of Orientals, has spread into… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
“This is Europe's true predicament: together with the fear of man we have also lost the love of man, reverence for man,… — Nietzsche Fiedrich Copy Share Image
“If you learn only one thing from this book, let it be that: that an Indian man 2,600 years ago came up… — Dominique Francon Copy Share Image
Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the Creator of this strange place knows us better than we know ourselves. Perhaps humanity was meant to eternally ponder the… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
Even if things are as bad as they could possible be, and as meaningless, then matters of truth are themselves indifferent; we… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“A Chinese proverb: Outside of sky there is sky, outside of people there are people. It is the idea of infinity and… — Weike Wang Copy Share Image
Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the… — Agnes Repplier 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 guys like that. What they were doing is depicting suffering. And that's exactly what a demon is, he's pretending that he isn't. So he can get more people down there. You…” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fdd/paul-laffoley-7077_company_look-at-all-the-stuff-the-existentialist_1903239.jpg)
![“the sky here's very strange. I often have the sensation when I look at it that it's a solid thing up there, protecting us from what's behind . . . [from] nothing, I suppose. Just darkness. Absolute night.” quote by Paul Bowles](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/697/paul-bowles-3731_darkness_the-sky-here-s-very-strange-i-often-have_2825781.jpg)
![“Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.” quote by Aberjhani](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/292/aberjhani-1814_absurdity_some-have-speculated-that-the-way-albert_3160804.jpg)
