Existence Quote by Thomas Ligotti

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is…

— Georg Simmel

I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations.

— Daniil Kharms

I have tried very hard to find meaning in what I do, but I have found instead a vast and limitless nothingness. I tried…

— John S. Hall

That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work. Think of how many times you put on your underwear in a lifetime. It…

— Charles Bukowski

Existence was really very simple when you did what you were told.

— William Goldman

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

— Marilynne Robinson

I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses....If that were true,…

— Isabel Allende

Everything may be expressed with almost nothing at all

— Jean Fautrier

Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

— Gottfried Leibniz

“Is it not reasonable to suspect that if existence were pointless and the universe devoid of meaning, we would never have achieved not only…

— Leszek Kołakowski

“Nothing substantial can ever truly be accomplished if you still believe nothing exists beyond that of a singular life.”

— Sufian Chaudhary