Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

#existent

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #existent




CLOV: Do you believe in the life to come? HAMM: Mine was always that.


Samuel Beckett


#life

On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.


Albert Camus


#existentialism #goodness #ignorance #the-plague #love

J'ai envie de partir, de m'en aller quelque part où je serais vraiment à ma place, où je m'emboîterais... Mais ma place n'est nulle part; je suis de trop.


Jean-Paul Sartre


#existentialism #men

At the beginning of human history, man lost some of the basic animal instincts in which an animal's behavior is embedded and by which it is secured. Such security, like paradise, is closed to man forever; man has to make choices. In addition to this, however, man has suffered another loss in his more recent development inasmuch as the traditions which buttressed his behavior are now rapidly diminishing. No instinct tells him what he has to do, and no tradition tells him what he ought to do; sometimes he does not even know what he wishes to do. Instead, he either wishes to do what other people do (conformism) or he does what other people tell him to do (totalitarianism).


Viktor E. Frankl


#conformity

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.


Albert Camus


#passion #struggle #passion

One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.


Rollo May


#love #love

I can't go on, I'll go on.


Samuel Beckett


#drama #existentialism #fiction #humor #nihilism

Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.


Simone de Beauvoir


#existentialism #feminism #philosophy #freedom

Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once! Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


#meaning-of-life #philosophy-literature #death

We call love what binds us to certain creatures only by reference to a collective way of seeing for which books and legends are responsible.


Albert Camus


#existentialism #probably-bullshit #love






back to top