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
It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter what happens after, what matters is, how you behave now.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Love" and all the obsessive behaviors associated with it, was an absurd emotion. — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
Are there any good arguments in defence of moral nihilism? I think not. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“A shaft of sweetness shoots through me from top to toe when the sun rises; I shoulder my gun in silent exaltation.” — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special. — Dean Ornish 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
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I knew that it was better to live out one’s own absurdity than to die for that of others.” — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It is often idle to attempt to oppose ignorance and absurdity by such feeble instruments as truth and reason, and the wisest… — Jacob Abbot Copy Share Image
Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is obvious that humanity faces existential threats of a global nature. They are global in the sense that is not possible… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
“If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the “Beyond” – into nothingness – one has deprived… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“I think the existential dilemma is: We're social animals, so we all wrestle with a sense of inadequacy. But when we realize… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
Life's a freaking mess. In fact, I'm going to tell Sarah we need to start a new philosophical movement: messessentialism instead of… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“I know just enough about myself to know I cannot settle for one of those simplifications which indignant people seize upon to… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
“As existentialists as Jean-Paul Sarte learned, radical individualism can be a dead end for social justice. It is not easy to establish… — Kim R. Holmes Copy Share Image
Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the… — David Lynch 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
“are, in a certain way, continuously voting with our money. “Deeper” existential thinkers like to deploy variations on the theme of the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“The unfailing rhythm of the seasons, the ever-turning wheel of life, the four facets of the earth which are lit in turn… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
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