There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something. — William Wharton 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
Don't you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality.” — Leila Sales Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
For any truth, if overdone ... if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its applicability, can be reduced to absurdity. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I'm interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child. — Louis Garrel Copy Share Image
A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Naskar's Razor: When more than one course of action are possible, most humane course is the correct course of action, even if… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success… — David Simon Copy Share Image
We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning;… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“extreme conceptions arise with the conception of inherently existent phenomena. it has been thoroughly analyzed how phenomena do not inherently exist; when… — chandrakirti Copy Share Image
The alarm bells sound regularly: cybergeddon; the next Pearl Harbor; one of the greatest existential threats facing the United States. With increasing… — Preet Bharara Copy Share Image
Every true faith is infallible. It performs what the believing person hopes to find in it. But it does not offer the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For if we regard space and time as properties that must, as regards their possibility, be found in things in themselves, [...]… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“To speak evil' is to speak this fateful, paradoxical situation that is the reversible concatenation of good and evil. That is to… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I have resigned from the professional undertaking of coin flipping. I am not here to tell you where gold's going to be.… — Hugh Hendry Copy Share Image
Now the basic impulse behind existentialism is optimistic, very much like the impulse behind all science. Existentialism is romanticism, and romanticism is… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspiring cosmic history we find… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“Filled with existential ennui about your place in the universe? Get over yourself. Yes, you're an inconsequential worm in the grand scope… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“From the Absolute to the Relative-from the Infinite to the Finite-from the Undifferentiated to the Differentiated-from the Unconditioned to the Conditioned and… — Upanishad Copy Share Image
man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
For me, a spiritual and existential crisis is the same thing in that your foundation gets rocked. — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel. — Robert M. Gates 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
I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless. — Leonard Baskin Copy Share Image
Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.” — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it.” — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Reason by degrees submits to absurdity, as the eye in time is accommodated to darkness.” — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think all true stories are hopeful stories. I don't think there's any room for nihilism. — John Green Copy Share Image
“An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“The supernatural is not as it claims, for it is inherently unnatural; it seeks to separate us from our natural world.” — Joe Iacovino Copy Share Image
“Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time.” — Steven L. Peck Copy Share Image
It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The committee won't help you, it won't help anyone, the committee is the old way, he laughs at your committee because it's… — Stephen King Copy Share Image