“He realized that time, clocks ticking, everything is just a human-made concept. That clocks didn’t tick back in the times he was… — Chandler Ivanko Copy Share Image
“I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to her, his friendships, his… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“One road began with logic and science. I had a fondness for this road. It was clean and unambiguous, free from the… — Brad Whittington Copy Share Image
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society. — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Absurdity is my favorite brand of humor because deep down inside, in our subconscious, it's all surrealism. It's all abstract. The world… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“as a teenager i experienced existential despair as an unsexy sensation of repressed orgasm in the chest; today i experience existential despair… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“Here were the luxury and priviledge of the well-fed man scoffing at all hopes and progress for the rest. [He] owed nothing… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“If you want good luck; you must go out there and search for that luck!! Because luck is waiting for you to… — Temitope Owosela Copy Share Image
I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“In account after account of exorcisms the demonic voices will propound nihilism of one variety or another.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Atheists are the most honest of the human race. These people are unable to live a double life; they are unable to… — Bangambiki Habyarimana 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
“Existentialist literature provides a more satisfactory account of the persistence of feminine narcissism. Simone de Beauvoir makes use of the existentialist conception… — Sandra Lee Bartky Copy Share Image
You know that trying to be a nihilist is real funny. Because you're doing something that you think requires effort. But basically… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“It may well be that, when Christianity passes away from a culture, nihilism is the inevitable consequence, precisely because of what Christianity… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
There are many options for how images can aggregate not to nihilism, but to significance, or to meaning. — Cynthia Daignault Copy Share Image
“Our age reminds one of the dissolution of the Greek city-state: Everything goes on as usual and yet there is no longer… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
