It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Sartre turns love into a ‘battle between two hypnotists in a closed room’.” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“It's a new world we gotta build - founded on love, tempered by reason.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“There is nothing how-so-ever absurd which is not defended by some theologian.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Camus and Henry waved to me from that muddy truck. They both wanted me to get over myself. So, this was me,… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“My school is existence, not existentialism. No ism is sufficient, my home is integration.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Solitude, the joy of being alone, stems from, as well as promotes, a state of maturity and inner richness.” — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
I know in an existential sense that life can change on a dime ... something has instantly and inexorably changed in American life. — John Lahr Copy Share Image
“...just because someone is a loner, it doesn't mean they’re alone. And just because someone is alone, it doesn't mean they’re lonely.” — Jason Daniel Chaplin Copy Share Image
This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither. — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“We built machines to answer every question, but forgot to ask what it means to be human.” — Lawrence Nault 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
“Obviously simplicity isn’t an unalloyed good — existentialism might be more like jumbling everything together into boxes and sorting it out when… — Adam Kotsko Copy Share Image
The absurd man will not commit suicide; he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Time makes us grow old, but it also gives us the day and the night...Lying is a bad thing. It makes you… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Subconsciously, we all want to be nebula... In the end, we’re all connected. We’re all going to become one cloud of light… — Jason Daniel Chaplin Copy Share Image
“What absurd victims of contrary desires we are! If a man is settled in one place he yearns to wander; when he… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“I like flaws and I feel more comfortable around those who have them.. The perfect people make me nervous. I don't trust… — Lokesh Tuli 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
In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death in… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“She wasn’t broken. She was made up of a thousand tiny little cracks. She was always trying to keep herself glued together.… — Jacqueline Simon Gunn Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to be human. I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear X-rays, and I want to smell… — Patrick Di Justo Copy Share Image
Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in… — Anne Lamott 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 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
“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
“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
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
With his compulsively slamming lyrics and king-of-the-world delivery, DMX intuitively echoes the existentialism of the projects of the novelist Donald Goines. — Elvis Mitchell 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
If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world. — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
