Seeing no resolution to my existential recognition of loss, I decide to eat lunch. — Chuck Klosterman 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
The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism. It is part reality and part nightmare — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
“In the digital age, we may become self-important enough to be recognised, but never truly important enough to be known or valued.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The doctor was not, he thought, really sure that anyone else existed, and wanted to prove they did by helping them.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The Room is a drama that is also a comedy that is also an existential cry for help that is finally a… — Greg Sestero Copy Share Image
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“...not positive about the definition of existentialism but it seems like the opposite of nihilism in which case I suppose I may… — Autumn Copy Share Image
The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Fate is the cruelest of masters, taking Life when it pleases or at random, handing Rigged decks to whom it pleases, cheating… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
It often happens that the universal belief of one age of mankind — a belief from which no one was, nor without… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Let’s act like sphinxes, however falsely, until we reach the point of no longer knowing who we are. For we are, in… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“What helped me survive was realizing that an antidote to nihilism is to create meaning in all aspects of our lives. Making… — Lee Lipsenthal Copy Share Image
“Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Maybe it's not logical. I don't know. I don't care. I've been asked didnt I think it odd that I should be… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“in the poetry that opens his book the Preacher is not commenting on what life is like without Christ. He is not… — David Gibson Copy Share Image
“To the horror of those who can genuinely claim to have suffered from its effects, alienation has proved a highly profitable commodity… — Martin Jay Copy Share Image
“terms of those who loved her. She paid back their love with—well, with what? Malice? Not proven. Hate? Not proven. With the… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Pity preserves things that are ripe for decline, it defends things that have been disowned and condemned by life, and it gives… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Look at all the stuff the Existentialists did. You can start with [Pablo] Picasso, you know, and then Francis Bacon and other… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
“Seeing the moving handmill, Kabir wept and said, "Alas, no one has survived the pressure of the two millstones (of the heavens… — Mir Amman Copy Share Image
“What emerges from these separate strands of (modern) history is an image of man himself that bears a new, stark, more nearly… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“The vitality of the ordinary members of society is dependent on its Outsiders. Many Outsiders unify themselves, realize themselves as poets or… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
“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
You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don't like to joke. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
![“Look at all the stuff the Existentialists did. You can start with [Pablo] Picasso, you know, and then Francis Bacon and other guys like that. What they were doing is depicting suffering. And that's exactly what a demon is, he's pretending that he isn't. So he can get more people down there. You…” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fdd/paul-laffoley-7077_company_look-at-all-the-stuff-the-existentialist_1903239.jpg)
