“When a man gets drunk he gets sentimental. That's what I wanted to avoid.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Heisenberg and Bohr and Einstein strike me as being like gifted retriever dogs. Off they go, not just for an afternoon, but… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber. — Michael Mullen Copy Share Image
I guess I worry about weird existential things, like how do we spend our final act. This is a very emotional question.… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you a secret about the human condition. Nihilism leads to spirituality. And spirituality leads to nihilism. It is never… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
When I think of God, when I think of him as existent, and when I believe him to be existent, my idea… — David Hume 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
The hunger of the spirit for eternity - as fierce as a starving man's for bread - is much less a craving… — Storm Jameson 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
Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“I don't write to be seen, I write so the world can see. I don't write to be heard, I write so… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Dan je.... samo bijela hartija, na kojoj se sve biljezi i ispisuje.... a racun se placa nocu.. na velikim, mracnim poljima nesanice.… — Ivo Andrić Copy Share Image
“A little more and I would have fallen into the mirror trap. I avoided it, but only to fall into the window… — Jean-Paul Sartre 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
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Are you finally admitting that you can sell a man hope? Have I at last succeeded in teaching you that?” He laughed… — Karen Maitland Copy Share Image
Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I had come to regard him as a loner with no real past and a future so vague that there was no… — Hunter S. Thompson 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
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