I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Innumerable arcs intersect and scatter into a vast indefinite sea.” — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“There are two ways to go to the gas chamber, free and not free.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational… — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I can never be an atheist, because God is our celestial hope for our existential worries, our cosmic chance against absurdity!" MMI — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Everything in the universe denies nothing; to suggest an ending is the one absurdity.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
“All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach them.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Why does man create? Is it man's purpose on earth to express himself, to bring form to thought, and to discover meaning… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Pure, existential space was regularly winking at me, each time in a more impressive manner, and this sensation of total freedom attracted… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
“Some people say history moves in a spiral, not the line we have come to expect. We travel through time in a… — Ocean Vuong Copy Share Image
“Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency. Those whom I deemed Changed to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed, Have aged and lost… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The universe is biased toward consciousness because the universe wants to be noticed. It's a way into existential hope that doesn't have… — John Green Copy Share Image
“How can you expect my character to be solidly real, to be anything other than obviously imaginary, when everything is contingent anyway?… — Jean Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The Giver of Existence is Eternally Existent; there is no harm, therefore, in the passing of beings, for the things that are… — Said Nursi Copy Share Image
“Though violent action is sometimes associated with nihilism, what makes such activity nihilistic, it seems, is the belief that ultimately nothing will… — John Marmysz Copy Share Image
“Postmodernism, the school of "thought" that proclaimed "There are no truths, only interpretations" has largely played itself out in absurdity, but it… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“To work and create 'for nothing', to sculpture in clay, to know that one's creation has no future, to see one's work… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche says very clearly all the way through his career that if you want to define human nature the first thing you… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Hume, Huxley, and other "immanent " psychologists, tried to identify the conception with a mere generalisation, so making no distinction between logical… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
“For many have but one resource to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think, “Circumstances have been against me,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Here were the luxury and priviledge of the well-fed man scoffing at all hopes and progress for the rest. [He] owed nothing… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image