“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 existentialists did say that life was all about pulling the victory of meaning from the jaws of senseless absurdity” — Mathew Mather Copy Share Image
Now the basic impulse behind existentialism is optimistic, very much like the impulse behind all science. Existentialism is romanticism, and romanticism is… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
That existential crisis is something you rarely see portrayed by black characters; the idea that people think about their own existence and… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
Just to say "Well, God is dead" in one breath is to say, in another, that nothing means anything. This is the… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
“Existentialism is no mournful delectation but a humanist philosophy of action, effort, combat, and solidarity. Man must create his own essence: it… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“But how can we venture to reprove or praise the universe! Let us beware of attributing to it heartlessness and unreason or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“A Chinese proverb: Outside of sky there is sky, outside of people there are people. It is the idea of infinity and… — Weike Wang Copy Share Image
“How can you expect my character to be solidly real, to be anything other than obviously imaginary, when everything is contingent anyway?… — Jean Paul Sartre 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
“What has come to light is neither nihilism nor cynicism, as one might have expected, but a quite extraordinary confusion over elementary… — Hannah Arendt 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
“Fate will allow the world Only to glimpse him, then rob it of him quickly.” — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
“A Christian is supposed to be in the world, and yet not of the world--a Both/And as perplexing and demanding as the… — Therese Doucet Copy Share Image
We isolate with every step, brick our exits, and seek deeper inside our soul for the boundary of existentialism, the essence... — Mariana Fulger 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
“It's a new world we gotta build - founded on love, tempered by reason.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism. — Susan Sontag 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
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. — Rollo May 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
