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#existentialism

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #existentialism




Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?


Cornelia Funke


#character #cornelia-funke #existentialism #words #writers

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.


Friedrich Nietzsche


#judgement #christ

A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.


Tom Stoppard


#plays #stoppard #dreams

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.


Friedrich Nietzsche


#existentialism #conformity

This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world.


Raymond Carver


#gazebo #pessimism #pessimism

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.


Jean-Paul Sartre


#jean-paul-sartre #language #the-plague #existentialism

You don't have to stay anywhere forever.


Neil Gaiman


#existentialism

Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.


Albert Camus


#hope #philosophy #existentialism

And it's always better, isn't it, when you discover answers on your own?


Veronica Rossi


#guidance #inspirational #young-adult #inspirational

There wasn't a single item of importance [in the newspaper]. A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of imporant things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the centre of his compass at his own home.


Kōbō Abe


#home #life #news #life






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