Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don't like to joke. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter what happens after, what matters is, how you behave now.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Love" and all the obsessive behaviors associated with it, was an absurd emotion. — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With his compulsively slamming lyrics and king-of-the-world delivery, DMX intuitively echoes the existentialism of the projects of the novelist Donald Goines. — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“A man is talking on the telephone behind a glass partition; you cannot hear him but you see his incomprehensible dumb-show and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world. — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
I like darkness and confusion and absurdity, but I like to know that there could be a little door that you could… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“I don't write to be seen, I write so the world can see. I don't write to be heard, I write so… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I don't see any point in nihilism... just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else. — John Green Copy Share Image
“Humans cannot live without illusions. For the men and women of today, an irrational faith in progress may be the only antidote… — John Gray Copy Share Image
“The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that makes us suffer like the death… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“All she had to do was make the simplest of gestures - open her hands and let go her hold. She lifted… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The alarm bells sound regularly: cybergeddon; the next Pearl Harbor; one of the greatest existential threats facing the United States. With increasing… — Preet Bharara Copy Share Image
Every true faith is infallible. It performs what the believing person hopes to find in it. But it does not offer the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To assume that one's existential task is completed when the individual is brought into right relation with society, that is, when the… — Merold Westphal Copy Share Image
I like the idea of being sort of withdrawn and mysterious, and what can be more mysterious that someone wearing a trash… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
“Man's primary will to know struggles against the selfsatisfied formalism of empty learning which drugs man into the illusory calm of fulfillment.… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
“The feeling of absurdity does not spring from the mere scrutiny of a fact or an impression, but that it bursts from… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The Theatre of the Absurd has renounced arguing about the absurdity of the human condition; it merely presents it in being -… — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
“It is now my intention to draw out from the story of Abraham the dialectical consequences inherent in it, expressing them in… — Kierkegaard, Søren Copy Share Image
“The Manger of Incidentals " We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
“We believe because it gives us faith. It gives us the willingness to go through our day, to keep the existentialist threat… — Tarun Betala Copy Share Image
“Both Bratva and thieves in law would like to call themselves nihilists and anarchists because they don’t support the established government, but… — Tanya Thompson Copy Share Image
“The unfailing rhythm of the seasons, the ever-turning wheel of life, the four facets of the earth which are lit in turn… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
