“There is no way back to certainty, simplicity and innocence, only the way forward into confusion, uncertainty and knowingness. The gasps of… — Oliver James Copy Share Image
“This line of reasoning would seem to lead to the absurd conclusion that the world is filled with noises no one hears,… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in… — Eva Hesse Copy Share Image
All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes… — Mike White Copy Share Image
“Sky is not a limit for me; because I have no limit for myself in life. Because life is a world full… — Temitope Owosela Copy Share Image
“as a teenager i experienced existential despair as an unsexy sensation of repressed orgasm in the chest; today i experience existential despair… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
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“terms of those who loved her. She paid back their love with—well, with what? Malice? Not proven. Hate? Not proven. With the… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Allah is in Himself the non-being and the being, the inexistent and the existent. He is at the same time that which… — Abdelkader El Djezairi Copy Share Image
“But it is just as useless for a man to want first of all to decide the externals and after that the… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“ Sounds Is Love of All, the World Sounds create soulful existence, When the oceans tide, it is sound; When fervency of… — John Shelton Jones Copy Share Image
“...only the one who knows and practices the iconoclastic fury of destruction can possess the joy born of freedom, of that unique… — Renzo Novatore Copy Share Image
“About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It seemed funny that one day I would go to bed in her arms and the next not feel anything, like a… — Steven L. Peck Copy Share Image
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“A Christian is supposed to be in the world, and yet not of the world--a Both/And as perplexing and demanding as the… — Therese Doucet Copy Share Image
Without the constantly living and articulated eperience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Apparently there is no profit in the unique, or not enough to make it worthwhile to preserve. Ultimately it drains the life… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once… — David C. Coates Copy Share Image
“College stirred in her a certain contempt for virtues like kindness and persistence. She would have appeared to have been a kind… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“Existentialism is no mournful delectation but a humanist philosophy of action, effort, combat, and solidarity. Man must create his own essence: it… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word "no." To "no" there is only one answer and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
For any truth, if “overdone” (as Dietzgen Senior put it), if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its actual applicability,… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Because you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“To hold two ideas that contradict each other is to flirt with absurdity, and humans are creatures who spend their lives trying… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception, more… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“Do I dream you? Or you dream me? Or does someone, something bigger than all' - her hands swept the vast constellations… — David Hewson Copy Share Image
I found motherhood a crash course in existentialism (what is my purpose in life, am I mistress or slave of my destiny,… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I'm in the middle of an existential crisis in how I approach comedy about these big issues. I sometimes find, when I… — Nish Kumar Copy Share Image
People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Among advocates for life after death, nobody even tries to sit down and do the hard work of explaining how the basic… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“A kind of joy came upon him, as if borne in on a summer breeze. He dimly recalled that he had been… — John Williams Copy Share Image
Existential questions consume my mind, 'Why am I here?' and when I'm 125 laying on my deathbed, what am I going to… — Leah Williamson Copy Share Image
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