Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don't like to joke. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom. — Viktor E. Frankl 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
There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I like darkness and confusion and absurdity, but I like to know that there could be a little door that you could… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Some other people want to be non existent some want to think of fictional than reality.I rather live in a Fictional World… — Arisa Takisha Copy Share Image
“How did I picture the life after the grave? I Fairly bawled out at him: 'A life in which I can remember… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I don't write to be seen, I write so the world can see. I don't write to be heard, I write so… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I don't see any point in nihilism... just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else. — John Green Copy Share Image
“The philosophy that prepares a revolution and the sentiment that underpins the philosophy have, in every case the two pillars of nihilism… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“Polarities of the 'authentic' vs. the 'inauthentic' are easily discernible in recreational modes. The criteria of authenticity are not necessarily objective but… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“Have you figured it out yet?” “What?” I say. “What it means to be alive?” “Nah mate…” “I guess the secret lies… — Ryan Gelpke 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
“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
“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
“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 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
“The feeling of absurdity does not spring from the mere scrutiny of a fact or an impression, but that it bursts from… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Man's primary will to know struggles against the selfsatisfied formalism of empty learning which drugs man into the illusory calm of fulfillment.… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
The Theatre of the Absurd has renounced arguing about the absurdity of the human condition; it merely presents it in being -… — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
