Comedy Quote by Wislawa Szymborska

In my formative years the people who influenced me most were the Christian existentialists, I mean men like Munier and Kierkegaard and perhaps most…

— Pierre Trudeau

Spirit and soul is horseshit of the worst sort. Obviously there are no fairies, no Santa Clauses, no spirits. What there is, is human…

— Albert Ellis

There are two kinds of existentialist; first, those who are Christian...and on the other hand the atheistic existentialists, among whom...I class myself. What they…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

For me, the existentialists are important critics of 'absolutist' claims, and Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty are, at least in their later writings, also exponents of…

— David E. Cooper

Look at all the stuff the Existentialists did. You can start with [Pablo] Picasso, you know, and then Francis Bacon and other guys like…

— Paul Laffoley

I was keen to dispel a familiar misunderstanding: that existentialists somehow relish the alienation of human beings from the world. This may have been…

— David E. Cooper

The big lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and reason.

— Joost Meerloo

The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

— Mark Twain

When temptations march monotonously in regiments, one waits for to pass.

— Frank Moore Colby

“Maybe it’s not metaphysics. Maybe it’s existential. I’m talking about the individual US citizen’s deep fear, the same basic fear that you and I…

— David Foster Wallace

“the existentialists did say that life was all about pulling the victory of meaning from the jaws of senseless absurdity”

— Mathew Mather

“If you learn only one thing from this book, let it be that: that an Indian man 2,600 years ago came up with the…

— Dominique Francon