Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism. It is part reality and part nightmare — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
“literature can very well describe the absurd, but it should never become absurd itself” — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“I had come to regard him as a loner with no real past and a future so vague that there was no… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The human condition is endlessly fascinating to me, and the existential horrors of life are what drive our imaginations and theater in… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
“HAMM: Scoundrel! Why did you engender me? NAGG: I didn't know. HAMM: What? What didn't you know? NAGG: That it'd be you.… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
My father has taught me not to succumb to nihilism, and my mother has taught me the value of hard work and… — Michael Tubbs Copy Share Image
Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“To hold two ideas that contradict each other is to flirt with absurdity, and humans are creatures who spend their lives trying… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception, more… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
For any truth, if “overdone” (as Dietzgen Senior put it), if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its actual applicability,… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Because you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Among advocates for life after death, nobody even tries to sit down and do the hard work of explaining how the basic… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It is a pity that the beautiful Christian metaphor “salvation” has come to be so hackneyed and therefore so despised. It has… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Mma Ramotswe had listened to a World Service broadcast on her radio one day which had simply taken her breath away. It… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to her, his friendships, his… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Neuroscientists rarely have to grapple with the issue of presentism versus existentialism. But in practice, neuroscientists are implicitly presentists. They view the… — Dean Buonomano Copy Share Image
I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“In the past he had been unable to see the great, teh unfathomable, the infinite, in anything. He had only felt that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“When that slow-motion, silent explosion of love takes place in me, unfolding its melting fringes and overwhelming me with the sense of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Our whole science and spirituality of which we think that are great achievements of mankind, of its historical evolution is based exclusively… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
there's no forsaking what you love no existential leap as witnessed here in time and blood a thousand kisses deep — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Setting up absurd worlds with rules to violate - it's one of the things I hope to achieve with my work. — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
“I was beginning to think that I was the subject of some existentialist experiment in permanently delayed gratification when” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Despair requires hope—some faint flicker of belief that things might change. I have none.” — Jonathan Harnisch Copy Share Image
There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“A kind of joy came upon him, as if borne in on a summer breeze. He dimly recalled that he had been… — John Williams Copy Share Image
Existential questions consume my mind, 'Why am I here?' and when I'm 125 laying on my deathbed, what am I going to… — Leah Williamson Copy Share Image
It often happens that the universal belief of one age, a belief from which no one was free or could be free… — John Stuart Mill 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
I found motherhood a crash course in existentialism (what is my purpose in life, am I mistress or slave of my destiny,… — Emma Donoghue 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
The existential attitude is one of involvement in contrast to a merely theoretical or detached attitude. "Existential" in this sense can be… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
People have to be engaged. Enough of nihilism! Enough of emptiness and defeatism! Fighting for a better world is not only the… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
We are called to reach out to those who find themselves in the existential peripheries of our societies and to show particular… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
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