Existentialism Quote by John Green

the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering.

— John Green

One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.

— Simone Weil

“[W]e need not become fixated upon our own suffering, whatever its origin. We offer it up, thus participating in the well-being of the universe.…

— Anonymous

“A universe is, indeed, to be pitied whose dominating inhabitants are so unconscious and so ethically embryonic that they make life a commodity, mercy…

— J. Howard Moore

“Contemplating this suffering which is unbearable to us, and is unbearable to others, too, can produce awake mind, which arises from the compassion that…

— Dalai Lama

“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to…

— Richard Dawkins

The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to…

— Richard Dawkins

“what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us- not the collective…

— John Green

“If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most Ill-adapted to its purpose in the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Living, if we go about it with selfishness and lack of awareness about our interdependence with the universal laws and other beings, turns into…

— Ivan Figueroa-Otero

“Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And has the nature of infinity.”

— William Wordsworth

“This is what our essential being-in-the-world is – nihilistic annihilation.”

— Arvydas Šliogeris