“Even as I think them, the words lose their context, dissolve into grains of absurdity in the vast ocean of day-to-day hunger.” — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
“It's like practicing pole vaulting your entire life, and then getting to the olympics and saying, ‘what the hell did I want… — Anonymous 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
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
“Everything in the universe denies nothing; to suggest an ending is the one absurdity.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
“Hiding my half existence behind the opaque walls of my skull, concealing it like a shameful disease, I did not consider the… — Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Copy Share Image
“It is this outer reach of existential abnegation – the moment where subjective identity deserts itself and becomes enslaved without consciousness of… — Emily Apter Copy Share Image
I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“God is perhaps full of hatred and hateful, incomprehensible and contradictory; but the more hideous is his face, the more he asserts… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The embodied self is the same person who woke to the world in a burst of visonary immediacy, who soon found that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“Don't create unbelief or doubt in people's minds. When you do so you ruin their lives and you have nothing to give… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“judgment is the most important faculty we have. An animal, or a man, may get on very well without ‘abstract attitude’ but… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“That is the idea I shall try to convey when I say that man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Think of it : zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth, all these… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“Nihilism is a disease of the soul. It can never be completely cured, and there is always the possibility of relapse. There… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“This evening, which I have tried to spirit away, is a strange burden to me. While time moves on, while the day… — Henri Alain-Fournier Copy Share Image
“You can't find love because you think there’s always someone better one swipe away. "You think you’re discerning? You are treating connection… — Lokesh Tuli Copy Share Image
But he had hardly felt the absurdity of those things, on the one hand, and the necessity of those others, on the… — Samuel Beckett 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
Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole,… — Eric Hoffer 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
You are also the physician who must watch over yourself. But in the course of every illness there are many days in… — Rainer Maria Rilke 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
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
It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, though it is a race dedicated to many absurdities… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The sweetness of the past? Our memory of it, since to remember it is to make it present, and it isn't present… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics. — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level. — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“What's the point? There is no point. That's the point!" On the joys of existentialism.” — John Tarttelin Copy Share Image
All gradients of reality, all existential distinctions, have finally been annihilated. — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
There are many options for how images can aggregate not to nihilism, but to significance, or to meaning. — Cynthia Daignault Copy Share Image
“There are no greater or truer lords, gods, fathers, sons or holy spirits, than the humans. Humans are the highest beings on… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
