“When a man gets drunk he gets sentimental. That's what I wanted to avoid.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.) — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Absurdity: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“How did I picture the life after the grave? I Fairly bawled out at him: 'A life in which I can remember… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Some other people want to be non existent some want to think of fictional than reality.I rather live in a Fictional World… — Arisa Takisha Copy Share Image
Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I knew that it was better to live out one’s own absurdity than to die for that of others.” — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Live with the consequences of your deeds and enjoy the warmth they create. The only warmth in the cold, indifferent universe is… — Peter Watson Copy Share Image
Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Naskar's Razor: When more than one course of action are possible, most humane course is the correct course of action, even if… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success… — David Simon Copy Share Image
We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning;… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“extreme conceptions arise with the conception of inherently existent phenomena. it has been thoroughly analyzed how phenomena do not inherently exist; when… — chandrakirti Copy Share Image
“The truth is that the forms I see have been slowly emptied out. They no longer have any content. They are shapes… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“ Once a person has been poisoned by self-deception, he can't make decisions about himself as neatly as all that," Himiko said,… — Kenzaburō Ōe Copy Share Image
“The course of the Rhine below Mainz becomes much more picturesque. The river descends rapidly and winds between hills, not high, but… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Given his emphasis on human freedom it is no wonder why some champion Kierkegaard as the father of existentialism, a philosophy that… — Mark A. Tietjen Copy Share Image
“This rock has seen billions of years of living organisms and will see many more once we die and turn to dirt.… — Jon Morrison Copy Share Image
I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“As existentialists as Jean-Paul Sarte learned, radical individualism can be a dead end for social justice. It is not easy to establish… — Kim R. Holmes Copy Share Image