If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Since death, as the existential horizon of Dasein, is considered absolute, it becomes the absolute in the form of an icon. There… — Theodor W. Adorno 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
“Sartre turns love into a ‘battle between two hypnotists in a closed room’.” — Iris Murdoch 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
“I wish I could hold time in my hands. I wish I could talk to it. Oh, how I would ask it… — Jacqueline Simon Gunn Copy Share Image
“Nihilism, she thought, is solely a privilege of the living. Respect will be the courtesy I extend to the dead.” — R. Curtis Venture Copy Share Image
Look at all the stuff the Existentialists did. You can start with [Pablo] Picasso, you know, and then Francis Bacon and other… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you, novice, that the absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities, and perhaps nothing… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“I want to see the world without explaining away its mystery by calling things wicked, righteous, sinful, and good. I want to… — Therese Doucet Copy Share Image
But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Deeds are divine, not doctrines. Actions are religious, not creeds.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“It is now my intention to draw out from the story of Abraham the dialectical consequences inherent in it, expressing them in… — Kierkegaard, Søren Copy Share Image
“The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that makes us suffer like the death… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Existential questions consume my mind, 'Why am I here?' and when I'm 125 laying on my deathbed, what am I going to… — Leah Williamson Copy Share Image
“People are ignorant of what any street clock knows. Why? Because the crack that cleaves existence also swallows their existence-reflecting consciousnesses. Thrown… — Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Copy Share Image
“Today, suddenly, I reached an absurd but unerring conclusion. In a moment of enlightenment, I realized that I’m nobody, absolutely nobody. When… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Despair requires hope—some faint flicker of belief that things might change. I have none.” — Jonathan Harnisch Copy Share Image
“No one is accountable for existing at all, or for being constituted as he is, or for living in the circumstances and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
