“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no… — Flannery O'Connor 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
“The awareness of mortality casts a bittersweet shadow over the vibrancy of life and love. We exist in a state of impermanence,… — Monika Ajay Kaul Copy Share Image
Philosophy would do well to desist from issuing any further injunctions about the need to re-establish the meaningfulness of existence, the purposefulness… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
“It seemed a ruse that fear of death should be the sole motivation for living and, yet, to quell this fear made… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
Perhaps - and this goes for the Kyoto School too - one of these insights is that nothingness and unknowing don't have… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“But how can we venture to reprove or praise the universe! Let us beware of attributing to it heartlessness and unreason or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think...and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“The course of the Rhine below Mainz becomes much more picturesque. The river descends rapidly and winds between hills, not high, but… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“This rock has seen billions of years of living organisms and will see many more once we die and turn to dirt.… — Jon Morrison Copy Share Image
I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Given his emphasis on human freedom it is no wonder why some champion Kierkegaard as the father of existentialism, a philosophy that… — Mark A. Tietjen Copy Share Image
“The Manger of Incidentals " We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power… — Jack Gilbert 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
“That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“ Once a person has been poisoned by self-deception, he can't make decisions about himself as neatly as all that," Himiko said,… — Kenzaburō Ōe Copy Share Image
“We believe because it gives us faith. It gives us the willingness to go through our day, to keep the existentialist threat… — Tarun Betala Copy Share Image
“Both Bratva and thieves in law would like to call themselves nihilists and anarchists because they don’t support the established government, but… — Tanya Thompson 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
“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
“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
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
