“College stirred in her a certain contempt for virtues like kindness and persistence. She would have appeared to have been a kind… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“One can always satisfy oneself, I suppose; it's other people one can't satisfy. One thinks one's way of life is sound and… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
It often happens that the universal belief of one age, a belief from which no one was free or could be free… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If I wrote about "being [abstraction]" I would be ignoring existential issues (such as death, limited-time, the arbitrary nature of the universe,… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“From the Absolute to the Relative-from the Infinite to the Finite-from the Undifferentiated to the Differentiated-from the Unconditioned to the Conditioned and… — Upanishad Copy Share Image
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth....… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Existential psychotherapy is the movement which, although standing on one side on the scientific analysis owed chiefly to the genius of Freud… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“It seemed funny that one day I would go to bed in her arms and the next not feel anything, like a… — Steven L. Peck Copy Share Image
“Pity preserves things that are ripe for decline, it defends things that have been disowned and condemned by life, and it gives… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“His absence was a presence. Who knew an empty space could take up so much room.” — Jacqueline Simon Gunn Copy Share Image
the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
One fast move or I'm gone,' I realize, gone the way of the last three years of drunken hopelessness which is a… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Although I am still far from this kind of interior understanding of myself, with profound respect for its significance I have sought… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Without the constantly living and articulated eperience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“A little more fervor in my nihilism and I might — gainsaying everything — shake off my doubts and triumph over them.… — Emil M. Cioran 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
We are called to reach out to those who find themselves in the existential peripheries of our societies and to show particular… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
It's one of the saving graces in a life, to be able to perceive one's own and others' absurdity, to notice our… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“To the horror of those who can genuinely claim to have suffered from its effects, alienation has proved a highly profitable commodity… — Martin Jay Copy Share Image
![“If I wrote about "being [abstraction]" I would be ignoring…” quote by Tao Lin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bd0/tao-lin-3279_abstraction_if-i-wrote-about-being-abstraction-i-wou_1757799.jpg)
