“Time is that by which at every moment all things become as nothing in our hands, and thereby lose all their true… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I was asked about existentialism, and I told the person asking go look in the mirror for existence. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
That is why I have called feminism nihilism. It says that being a woman is nothing definite and that the duty of… — Harvey Mansfield Copy Share Image
“At a certain time in our existential experience, we must just not want better for ourselves, but for our country and the… — Henry Johnson Jr Copy Share Image
Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“I didn’t come here to please. I came here to feel. And feeling — truly feeling — hurts. But it also sets… — Phoenix Moon Copy Share Image
I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works. — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
“With nihilism, no discussion is possible; for the nihilist logic doubts the existence of its interlocutor, and is not quite sure that… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The deflation, or flattening out, of values in Modern art does not necessarily indicate an ethical nihilism. Quite the contrary; in opening… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
When the movie 'Sliding Doors' came out, it almost sent me into existential crisis because I think about that all the time.… — Jessica Rothe Copy Share Image
It wasn't the New World that mattered...Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior… — Armond White Copy Share Image
Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“As for the significance of my nihilism…in a word, it is the foundation of my thoughts. The goal of my activities is… — Mikiso Hane Copy Share Image
A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“But despair and nihilism had been eating into me for years. The more I saw of the sad and futile dead, hovering… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
“Elliott was disarmingly bright, according to everyone who knew him, an avid reader of Dostoevsky, Kafka, Beckett, Stendhal, Freud, the Buddha, all… — William Todd Schultz Copy Share Image
“One persistent attempt to find a thread in the history of mankind focuses on the notion of Reason. Human history, on this… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
“Strangman shrugged theatrically. "It might ," he repeated with great emphasis. "Let's admit that. It makes it more interesting—particularly for Kerans. '… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“One day about a month ago, I really hit bottom. You know, I just felt that in a Godless universe, I didn't… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“I realized that there was no half-way house between non-existence and this flaunting abundance. If you existed, you had to exist all… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“I wish I could see butterflies burst from cocoons Without tempering my amazement Knowing all beauty eventually dies.” — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
“A sense of his own identity came upon him with sudden force, and he felt the power of it. He was himself,… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“If you want good luck; you must go out there and search for that luck!! Because luck is waiting for you to… — Temitope Owosela Copy Share Image
“- I don’t know what else to say. - There is nothing else to say. A few minutes of words can’t change… — Cameron Trost Copy Share Image
“Once we are a creation, how much absurdity can there be in our heart without God the Creator.” — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“God has not yet revealed himself to no one in no unclear terms. Religions are attempts to find him; on that level… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
“The greatest discovery of the 21st century will be the discovery that Man was not meant to live at the speed of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
I thought I was having an existential crisis, but it was nothing. Please don't tailgate: body in trunk. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . .… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Logic and reasoning, which might show the absurdity of such dreams of bliss and revenge, are to be thrust aside.” — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
