“THREE BASIC TRUTHS THREE BASIC TRUTHS Three things have a limited threshold: Time, pain, and death. While truth, love, and knowledge –… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“If I didn't try to assume responsibility for my own existence, it would seem utterly absurd to go on existing.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“When one contemplated Portia, when one contemplated Sharon, when one contemplated one's own apparently pointless, utterly trivial being, the questions hung all… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
I'm in the middle of an existential crisis in how I approach comedy about these big issues. I sometimes find, when I… — Nish Kumar Copy Share Image
“There is no reality except in action. Man is nothing else than his plan; he exists only to the extent that he… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
In comparison with capitalism, which reconstituted man as an economic animal; in comparison with Marxism, which found man an object made up… — Ali Shariati Copy Share Image
“Why doesn't the pope convert to Calvinism? Why doesn't the Dalai Lama, convert to Christianity, why doesn't Billy Graham convert to Islam,… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Do I dream you? Or you dream me? Or does someone, something bigger than all' - her hands swept the vast constellations… — David Hewson Copy Share Image
What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“In the religious myths, the creative will appears personified in God, and man already feels himself guilty when he assumes himself to… — Otto Rank Copy Share Image
“Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential… — Thomas 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
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
In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity. — Anonymous 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
"Batman Begins" leaks existential phoniness from the first frame. — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
“I wish I could see butterflies burst from cocoons Without tempering my amazement Knowing all beauty eventually dies.” — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“for the existentialists, what generated anxiety was not the godlessness of the world, per se, but rather the freedom to choose between… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
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