We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe. — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
“I am a pilgrim of love, life and liberty, out to end conspiracy and superstition.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“This wasn’t how I imagined things going. But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of… — Leila Sales Copy Share Image
“the existentialists did say that life was all about pulling the victory of meaning from the jaws of senseless absurdity” — Mathew Mather Copy Share Image
I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“literature can very well describe the absurd, but it should never become absurd itself” — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Salvation is no supernatural or extraterrestrial phenomenon, though, throughout history it is seen mostly as something supernatural and mystical. Salvation simply means… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I went through this kind of existential crisis. I was going through a breakup; I tore my ACL and my meniscus and… — Gus Dapperton Copy Share Image
It's a waste to chase the pipe dream of a magical tiny theory that allows us to make quick and detailed calculations… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
For me nihilism is a stage of life being meaningless. But there is good in the bad. The stages I go through… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Bergman was the first to bring metaphysics - religion, death, existentialism - to the screen. ... But the best of Bergman is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What is the point of our lives? There isn't any. I can't seem to decide how much horror and how much joy… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
“Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget it, or bear… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
“What, in fact, is the absurd man? He who, without negating it, does nothing for the eternal. Not that nostalgia is foreign… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Though nihilism has been relentlessly criticized for overemphasizing the dark side of human experience, it might be equally true that this overemphasis… — John Marmysz Copy Share Image
“It is the thought, not the incidentals of expression, that essentially makes an exposition unpopular. A systematic ribbon and button maker can… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“He realized that time, clocks ticking, everything is just a human-made concept. That clocks didn’t tick back in the times he was… — Chandler Ivanko Copy Share Image
“Sonnet of Superpowers Poet's superpower is their pain, Philosopher's superpower is reason. Scientist's superpower is their brain, Artist's superpower is their vision.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice, however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
In the potential of absurdity, hiding in the disparate combination of the various different subjects which in themselves are nothing but daily… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity. — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image