“A conscious being without free will is simply a metaphysical absurdity.” — Raymond M. Smullyan Copy Share Image
I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . .… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“It's like practicing pole vaulting your entire life, and then getting to the olympics and saying, ‘what the hell did I want… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Logic and reasoning, which might show the absurdity of such dreams of bliss and revenge, are to be thrust aside.” — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Even as I think them, the words lose their context, dissolve into grains of absurdity in the vast ocean of day-to-day hunger.” — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
“We call love what binds us to certain creatures only by reference to a collective way of seeing for which books and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer.… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“A little more and I would have fallen into the mirror trap. I avoided it, but only to fall into the window… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Available only to souls who once died inside — and came back full of truth. Not meant for those still living for… — Phoenix Moon Copy Share Image
The doctrine of transmigrationÂ… was a means of constructing a plausible vindication of the ways of the cosmos to man; Â… none… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It's one of the saving graces in a life, to be able to perceive one's own and others' absurdity, to notice our… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
[Jean-Paul] Sartre was a throwback to the existential period. I'm not really so much into that these days. I went through a… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I was keen to dispel a familiar misunderstanding: that existentialists somehow relish the alienation of human beings from the world. This may… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
“At the beginning of human history, man lost some of the basic animal instincts in which an animal's behavior is embedded and… — Viktor Emil Frankl Copy Share Image
“There are no arguments. Can anyone who has reached the limit bother with arguments, causes, effects, moral considerations, and so forth? Of… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
This is what it is to be human: to see the essential existential futility of all action, all striving -- and to… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
“As long as I have questions and no answers I’ll keep on writing. How do you start at the beginning, if things… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“Like alcoholism and drug addiction, nihilism is a disease of the soul. It can never be completely cured, and there is always… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“For instance, there is something new about my hands, a certain way of picking up my pipe or fork. Or else it's… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
![“[Jean-Paul] Sartre was a throwback to the existential period. I'm not really so much into that these days. I went through a period of going over things and looking at them again to see what they were. But I'm into psychiatry type things. I'm into philosophy. I'm into that sort of thing.” quote by Van Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d3/van-morrison-1192_existential_jean-paul-sartre-was-a-throwback-to-the_2723543.jpg)
