“Yes, and I have training dealing with deep, existential questions,” Dahl said. “The way I’m dealing with it right now is this:… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
In the doctrine of the world and humankind as 'will to power and nothing else', Heidegger identified not an antidote to nihilism,… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
“That's something we all want to know, isn't it? Is there a "purpose" to our form and substance? Or are we simply… — Peter Sinn Nachtrieb Copy Share Image
Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism. There is no particular religious tradition in… — Stanley Elkin Copy Share Image
Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
“You live in a deranged age - more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“Death was an existential catastrophe, a rip in the soft upholstery with which humanity padded over a hard uncaring universe, but it… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
In Nietzsche's view nihilism is not a Weltanschauung that occurs at some time and place or another; it is rather the basic… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“The nihilist looks around at everything and comes to terms with what seems to be obvious. The sun is one tiny dying… — Jon Morrison Copy Share Image
“Supposing there is no life everlasting. Think what it means if death is really the end of all things. They've given up… — W Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I want to see the world without explaining away its mystery by calling things wicked, righteous, sinful, and good. I want to… — Therese Doucet Copy Share Image
“We see, then, that even from the zoological point of view, which is the least interesting and—note this—not decisive, a being in… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“Looking at death can be life-affirming. It doesn’t need to mire us in thoughts of uselessness, nihilism, self-recrimination, and indifference to the… — Brent Green Copy Share Image
If I wrote about "being [abstraction]" I would be ignoring existential issues (such as death, limited-time, the arbitrary nature of the universe,… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“It is precisely because the principle of the transcendence of the object is completely independent of the existential status of the objects… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
I guess I worry about weird existential things, like how do we spend our final act. This is a very emotional question.… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you, novice, that the absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities, and perhaps nothing… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“What an absurd torture for the artist to know that an audience identifies him with a work that, within himself, he has… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“If you learn only one thing from this book, let it be that: that an Indian man 2,600 years ago came up… — Dominique Francon Copy Share Image
“This is Europe's true predicament: together with the fear of man we have also lost the love of man, reverence for man,… — Nietzsche Fiedrich Copy Share Image
Christianity - An old metaphysical romance, filled with marvels, contradictions, and absurdity, born in the ardent imagination of Orientals, has spread into… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“the sky here's very strange. I often have the sensation when I look at it that it's a solid thing up there,… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
“A Chinese proverb: Outside of sky there is sky, outside of people there are people. It is the idea of infinity and… — Weike Wang Copy Share Image
Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“There is no way back to certainty, simplicity and innocence, only the way forward into confusion, uncertainty and knowingness. The gasps of… — Oliver James Copy Share Image
All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in… — Eva Hesse Copy Share Image
“This line of reasoning would seem to lead to the absurd conclusion that the world is filled with noises no one hears,… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Even if things are as bad as they could possible be, and as meaningless, then matters of truth are themselves indifferent; we… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the Creator of this strange place knows us better than we know ourselves. Perhaps humanity was meant to eternally ponder the… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
“Now, old and dying or dead already, and we have mostly acclimatized to the absurdity of daily life in the fourth decade… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
The refusal to belong to any school of thought, the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of beliefs whatever, and especially… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
![“If I wrote about "being [abstraction]" I would be ignoring existential issues (such as death, limited-time, the arbitrary nature of the universe, the mystery of consciousness) that I feel affect me most in my life and think about most of the time. Another reason is that it doesn't seem specific or…” quote by Tao Lin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd0/tao-lin-3279_abstraction_if-i-wrote-about-being-abstraction-i-wou_1757799.jpg)
![“the sky here's very strange. I often have the sensation when I look at it that it's a solid thing up there, protecting us from what's behind . . . [from] nothing, I suppose. Just darkness. Absolute night.” quote by Paul Bowles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/697/paul-bowles-3731_darkness_the-sky-here-s-very-strange-i-often-have_2825781.jpg)
![“Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.” quote by Aberjhani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/292/aberjhani-1814_absurdity_some-have-speculated-that-the-way-albert_3160804.jpg)
