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
“It wasn’t about believing this or that, it wasn’t about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“If this had not been the case with Abraham, then perhaps he might have loved God but not believed; for he who… — Kierkegaard, Søren Copy Share Image
Let us do something, while we have the chance! ... Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“Like a handprint in cement An indelible mark has been left My identity has been bent At the point where your fingers… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“Thirdly, the existent individual is impassioned, impassioned with a passionate thought; he is inspired; he is a kind of incarnation of the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Every form of life must struggle. Life is an aberration; death is ordinary. Life requires obstruction, conflict, reverses, and resolve. Life requires… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“As long as I have questions and no answers I’ll keep on writing. How do you start at the beginning, if things… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“Like alcoholism and drug addiction, nihilism is a disease of the soul. It can never be completely cured, and there is always… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
This is what it is to be human: to see the essential existential futility of all action, all striving -- and to… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
“For instance, there is something new about my hands, a certain way of picking up my pipe or fork. Or else it's… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“There wasn't a single item of importance [in the newspaper]. A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and… — Abe Kōbō 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
“Existentialism “every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind,” we have entered the familiar Wordsworthian Romantic territory in which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Coming into existence is always bad for those who come into existence. In other words, although we may not be able to… — David Benatar Copy Share Image
“The very fact of being human panics us into the most grotesque play-acting imaginable; and we deal in absurdities to keep life… — Hal Bennett Copy Share Image
Of all the systems - if indeed a bundle of contradictions and absurdities may be called a system - which human nature… — Mary Hays Copy Share Image
“The existential hero strives for authenticity even when it is costly, lives meaningfully in the midst of a banal, absurd world, and… — Jason Dias Copy Share Image
I think it's true that for existentialist thinkers, appreciation of what we are - free, makers of meaning, 'issues' for ourselves, and… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Desire is this absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility. Ever optimistic, ever resourceful, desire tells us what it sees as… — Wendy Farley Copy Share Image
Just to say "Well, God is dead" in one breath is to say, in another, that nothing means anything. This is the… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
“The truth is that the forms I see have been slowly emptied out. They no longer have any content. They are shapes… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
For me, the existentialists are important critics of 'absolutist' claims, and Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty are, at least in their later writings, also… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all… — Bob Inglis Copy Share Image
“As joy dwindles with the years I wistfully recall When the christmas tree Looked ten feet tall And the presents under it… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“If we put away all the etymological jargon and destroy all self-created images and technical descriptions, then it is as simple as… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I think it's always interesting to make sensational stories where, if these people don't make the right choice, it actually puts marks… — Daniel Espinosa Copy Share Image
“Nature teaches us lessons that no book can teach. It teaches us that there is always inequality in life. Just look at… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live… — Albert Camus 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
“At least when I bleed, it’s my own blood. At least when I fuck up, it’s my own fault. I own my… — Lokesh Tuli Copy Share Image
The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“We are the Gods, who create Gods, and then we turn into worshipers seeking comfort and solace from those Gods that we… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There are those who will find [Albert Camus] notions about absurdity appealing, and others who will be drawn by the solar side… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
I've always been literally a lover of the absurd. I think the absurd gives a new dimension to reality and even to… — Tomi Ungerer Copy Share Image
“Yes, there is an outside world, and yes, there is an objective reality, but in moving through this world, we constantly apply… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
The laughter that happens when people are truth-telling and showing up and being real - I call that "knowing laughter." That's what… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
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