There are two kinds of existentialist; first, those who are Christian...and on the other hand the atheistic existentialists, among whom...I class myself.… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Man, you see, swings between nihilism and spirituality. Man, you see, swings between utmost bliss and the feelings of utter despair. It’s… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
But why should a religious person be interested in a work like Heidegger's that many regard as the epitome of nihilism? For… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“There comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Humans and nature can never be friends! Nature will never hesitate to starve you in the drought, drown you in the rain,… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life.… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The hunger of the spirit for eternity - as fierce as a starving man's for bread - is much less a craving… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context. In the unreal realm of… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Today, suddenly, I reached an absurd but unerring conclusion. In a moment of enlightenment, I realized that I’m nobody, absolutely nobody. When… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I wish I could hold time in my hands. I wish I could talk to it. Oh, how I would ask it… — Jacqueline Simon Gunn Copy Share Image
“I am poor—you are my riches; dark—you are my light; I own nothing, need nothing. And how could I own anything? After… — Søren Kierkegaard 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
“In New Orleans, absurdity is like the humidity. It permeates everything, until you stop noticing it. It connects everything and everyone in… — Michael Reilly Copy Share Image
“I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“The Liquid Pantomime by Stewart Stafford Time is life’s shareholder: Youth’s dark angel investor, Midlife’s white shark creditor, The old's Arctic blood… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“And to this world, to this scene of tormented and agonised beings, who only continue to exist by devouring each other, in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“I hadn't known Chancel very well, but ten days earlier I had seen him laughing with the others around the Christmas tree.… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
When the movie 'Sliding Doors' came out, it almost sent me into existential crisis because I think about that all the time.… — Jessica Rothe Copy Share Image
It wasn't the New World that mattered...Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The deflation, or flattening out, of values in Modern art does not necessarily indicate an ethical nihilism. Quite the contrary; in opening… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior… — Armond White Copy Share Image
I went through this kind of existential crisis. I was going through a breakup; I tore my ACL and my meniscus and… — Gus Dapperton Copy Share Image
It's a waste to chase the pipe dream of a magical tiny theory that allows us to make quick and detailed calculations… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
For me nihilism is a stage of life being meaningless. But there is good in the bad. The stages I go through… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Bergman was the first to bring metaphysics - religion, death, existentialism - to the screen. ... But the best of Bergman is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Fate is the cruelest of masters, taking Life when it pleases or at random, handing Rigged decks to whom it pleases, cheating… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“What is the point of our lives? There isn't any. I can't seem to decide how much horror and how much joy… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Let’s act like sphinxes, however falsely, until we reach the point of no longer knowing who we are. For we are, in… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“What helped me survive was realizing that an antidote to nihilism is to create meaning in all aspects of our lives. Making… — Lee Lipsenthal Copy Share Image
It often happens that the universal belief of one age of mankind — a belief from which no one was, nor without… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
