I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
My favorite word is existentialism. I can't say it and I'm not quite sure what it means. — Geri Halliwell Copy Share Image
It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“We call love what binds us to certain creatures only by reference to a collective way of seeing for which books and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I can never be an atheist, because God is our celestial hope for our existential worries, our cosmic chance against absurdity!" MMI — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational… — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach them.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“I like flaws and I feel more comfortable around those who have them.. The perfect people make me nervous. I don't trust… — Lokesh Tuli Copy Share Image
“There is no reality except in action. Man is nothing else than his plan; he exists only to the extent that he… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The absurd man will not commit suicide; he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Obviously simplicity isn’t an unalloyed good — existentialism might be more like jumbling everything together into boxes and sorting it out when… — Adam Kotsko Copy Share Image
“What absurd victims of contrary desires we are! If a man is settled in one place he yearns to wander; when he… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“Subconsciously, we all want to be nebula... In the end, we’re all connected. We’re all going to become one cloud of light… — Jason Daniel Chaplin Copy Share Image
“Time makes us grow old, but it also gives us the day and the night...Lying is a bad thing. It makes you… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“You're sitting there vibrating with 'talent' while the swine are out there eating the crop! Potential is for weaklings and politicians! It… — Lokesh Tuli Copy Share Image
“At the beginning of human history, man lost some of the basic animal instincts in which an animal's behavior is embedded and… — Viktor Emil Frankl Copy Share Image
“There are no arguments. Can anyone who has reached the limit bother with arguments, causes, effects, moral considerations, and so forth? Of… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Milkparade "If you can master nonsense as well as you have already learned to master sense, then each will expose the other… — Malaclypse the Younger Copy Share Image
“In life, humans are propelled by uncertainty—by the ignorance and blindness of what lies ahead. We cling to the hope that our… — Raed Copy Share Image
I was keen to dispel a familiar misunderstanding: that existentialists somehow relish the alienation of human beings from the world. This may… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Let's say that life is this square of the sidewalk. We are born at this crack and we die at that crack.… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
“One road began with logic and science. I had a fondness for this road. It was clean and unambiguous, free from the… — Brad Whittington Copy Share Image
“Don’t curse the gods; you will feel shame when you have to call on them for help” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“God, listen to the absurdity within us and raise us from the illusion!” — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
"Batman Begins" leaks existential phoniness from the first frame. — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Life is so absurd now that it is almost impossible to be a satirist in this era. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image