Seeing no resolution to my existential recognition of loss, I decide to eat lunch. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Camus himself described this work as 'an attempt to understand the time I live in'. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Wouldn’t the joys of life lose all colour, if life was eternal?” — Constantina Maud Copy Share Image
I never asserted such an absurd thing as that things arise without a cause. — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Come, sleep and death; you promise nothing, you hold everything.” — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“What's the point of wandering? to find a better place? a home? But the loneliness will always capture me in its claws… — Asper Blurry 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
“More absurdity in myself, endless absurdities. My own childishness sometimes amused me. Would it amuse others? Were others like myself, hopelessly childish?” — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships. — David Ives Copy Share Image
Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“It may well be that, when Christianity passes away from a culture, nihilism is the inevitable consequence, precisely because of what Christianity… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Sleepless nights Spent looking at the ceiling Searching in those etched patterns For some sort of adhesive To glue together the broken… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
What I'm talking about is actually is the Mystery of Being as existential fact. That there is something that haunts this world… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“THREE BASIC TRUTHS THREE BASIC TRUTHS Three things have a limited threshold: Time, pain, and death. While truth, love, and knowledge –… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
It seems pretentious to assume that we are not creatures of action. I think often it takes a situation of extreme absurdity,… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Most of what happens in the world is just a consequence of natural, universal laws- laws that apply everywhere and to everything,… — PZ Myers 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
“Superfluity was the only relationship I could establish between these trees, these hedges, these paths. Vainly I strove to compute the number… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
“We live among ruins in a World in which ‘god is dead’ as Nietzsche stated. The ideals of today are comfort, expediency,… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“One of my constant preoccupations is trying to understand how it is that other people exist, how it is that there are… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“But then one voice arose from the babbling clamor to silence them all. It was a voice he hadn’t heard in a… — Casey Fisher Copy Share Image
“Positivist man is a curious creature who dwells in the tiny island of light composed of what he finds scientifically "meaningful," while… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“We stand on a mountain pass in the midst of whirling snow and blinding mist, through which we get glimpses now and… — Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
Existential psychotherapy is the movement which, although standing on one side on the scientific analysis owed chiefly to the genius of Freud… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“A conscious being without free will is simply a metaphysical absurdity.” — Raymond M. Smullyan Copy Share Image
