Existentialism Quote by John Green Download Open image “I think all true stories are hopeful stories. I don't think there's any room for nihilism.” — John Green ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Existentialism Hopeful Nihilism Rooms Stories Thinking True story
Here's my answer to the very real existential crisis that grips me midway through everything I've ever tried to do: I think stories help… — John Green Copy Share Image
I just think that good stories are stories that reflect ourselves back at us and each other. — Elisabeth Moss Copy Share Image
Isn't it a rare thing, telling hopeful stories now? I think we need more of that, to be honest. — Jamie Parker Copy Share Image
Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
I believe these stories exist because we sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
People across the world are yearning to be connected to stories of hope. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy. — John Green Copy Share Image
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause — John Green Copy Share Image
She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." -… — John Green Copy Share Image
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Traffic's not too bad on Sheridan, and I'm cornering the car like it's the Indy 500, and we're listening to my favorite NMH song,… — John Green Copy Share Image
So I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“said to him quietly, as if I couldn’t hear or something. Dad was about to respond but I interrupted.” — John Green Copy Share Image
I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls. — John Green Copy Share Image
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — 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 to Inception… — Armond White Copy Share Image
“There are no greater or truer lords, gods, fathers, sons or holy spirits, than the humans. Humans are the highest beings on earth.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“To seek out the upright. No fall but preceded by a declination. He took great marching steps into the nothingness, counting them against his… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't find him.… — Bangambiki Habyarimana 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. Yes, in… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“If we are unable to tolerate ourselves when we are alone, how can we expect anyone else to be enriched by our company? Before… — Gerald Corey Copy Share Image