Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity. — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
Seeing no resolution to my existential recognition of loss, I decide to eat lunch. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe. — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
I'm trying to deal with the thirty years I spent in prison, not the physical, because of existentialism. — Jedi Mind Tricks Copy Share Image
Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is… — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“If I didn't try to assume responsibility for my own existence, it would seem utterly absurd to go on existing.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Where men are heated by zeal and enthusiasm, there is no degree of human testimony so strong as may not be procured… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“With older people, it's quite different. They're reliable, they show you what to do, and there's solidity in their affection.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Hard as it may sound, no god has saved anything or anyone in human history. It is the humans who have done… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Atheists are the most honest of the human race. These people are unable to live a double life; they are unable to… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Atheism, true 'existential' atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly unjust or unmerciful God, is a spiritual state; it is a real… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share Image
When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“The existential hero strives for authenticity even when it is costly, lives meaningfully in the midst of a banal, absurd world, and… — Jason Dias Copy Share Image
Of all the systems - if indeed a bundle of contradictions and absurdities may be called a system - which human nature… — Mary Hays Copy Share Image
I think it's true that for existentialist thinkers, appreciation of what we are - free, makers of meaning, 'issues' for ourselves, and… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
“The truth is that the forms I see have been slowly emptied out. They no longer have any content. They are shapes… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Al-e-Ahmad’s invocation of existentialist and absurdist themes in the context of Tehran’s slums underlined a shared predicament. Following Hedayat, he spoke of… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“No one is accountable for existing at all, or for being constituted as he is, or for living in the circumstances and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“One can always satisfy oneself, I suppose; it's other people one can't satisfy. One thinks one's way of life is sound and… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Only when we have seen and foreseen what we dread shall we be rewarded by that dazzling, unforeseen wing-footed wanderer. We could… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Thus we can regard the phenomenon of reproduction as founded in the very nature of being. But we must stop there. The… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“More Important Than Truth (The Sonnet) In the beginning even I was, Bedazzled by the concept of truth. It took me some… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The great boon of repression is that it makes it possible to live decisively in an overwhelmingly miraculous and incomprehensible world, a… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“The course of the Rhine below Mainz becomes much more picturesque. The river descends rapidly and winds between hills, not high, but… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I am a pilgrim of love, life and liberty, out to end conspiracy and superstition.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
