In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special. — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“A shaft of sweetness shoots through me from top to toe when the sun rises; I shoulder my gun in silent exaltation.” — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of… — Abhijit Naskar 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
My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“I could blame my existential sadness on a lot of issues, but the truth is, it’s been a part of me since… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
“the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering..… — John Green Copy Share Image
Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dasein is a being that does not simply occur among other beings. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that in… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only… — Octavio Paz 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
Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism… — Jack Kerouac 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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
"Batman Begins" leaks existential phoniness from the first frame. — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Life is so absurd now that it is almost impossible to be a satirist in this era. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“Don’t curse the gods; you will feel shame when you have to call on them for help” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“God, listen to the absurdity within us and raise us from the illusion!” — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
“Fate will allow the world Only to glimpse him, then rob it of him quickly.” — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
