The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“I am a pilgrim of love, life and liberty, out to end conspiracy and superstition.” — 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
The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism — nay, it is identical with nihilism, — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
“She's studying the Existentialists this month. Asked for a study day last week to kill an Arab on the beach.” — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world. — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“A man is talking on the telephone behind a glass partition; you cannot hear him but you see his incomprehensible dumb-show and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“What's the point of wandering? to find a better place? a home? But the loneliness will always capture me in its claws… — Asper Blurry Copy Share Image
There are those who will find [Albert Camus] notions about absurdity appealing, and others who will be drawn by the solar side… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
“Nature teaches us lessons that no book can teach. It teaches us that there is always inequality in life. Just look at… — Mouloud Benzadi 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
“A little more fervor in my nihilism and I might — gainsaying everything — shake off my doubts and triumph over them.… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“If we put away all the etymological jargon and destroy all self-created images and technical descriptions, then it is as simple as… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I think it's always interesting to make sensational stories where, if these people don't make the right choice, it actually puts marks… — Daniel Espinosa Copy Share Image
For me, the existentialists are important critics of 'absolutist' claims, and Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty are, at least in their later writings, also… — David E. Cooper 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
“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
“Each one of us has to save his own soul, and has to do God's work himself, but instead of that we… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I ascended, I ascended, I dreamt, I thought,—but everything oppressed me. A sick one did I resemble, whom bad torture wearieth, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image