[W]hat we also see in sex is a kind of submissiveness. But not a kind of submissiveness which is simply ‘do what you like, I’m just here for you’, but it…is, or can be, very...

Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.

There comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not...

This evening, which I have tried to spirit away, is a strange burden to me. While time moves on, while the day will soon end and I already wish it gone, there are men who...

The hardest bones, containing the richest marrow, can be conquered only by a united crushing of all the teeth of all dogs. That of course is only a figure of speech and exaggerated; if all...

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?

tingkat dan sifat seksualitas seseorang meluas sampai puncak semangatnya

Sometimes I couldn’t figure it out, what all the living was for.

İnsanın kendi yüzünü anlayabilmesi belki de elinde değil. Belki de tek başıma yaşadığım için böyle oluyor. Topluluk içinde yaşayanlar, kendilerini, arkadaşlarına nasıl görünüyorlarsa aynalarda tıpkı öyle görmeyi öğrenmişlerdir. Benim arkadaşım yok. Tenimin bunca çıplak olması...

Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise!One thing at least is certain – This Life flies;One thing is certain and the rest is Lies -The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.

Te leven betekent strikt genomen niets anders dan dag voor dag zelfmoord op te schuiven.

To stand on one leg and prove God’s existence is a very different thing from going on one’s knees and thanking Him.

All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self…. What I have instead...

Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her.

The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.

Mma Ramotswe had listened to a World Service broadcast on her radio one day which had simply taken her breath away. It was about philosophers who called themselves existentialists and who, as far as Mma...

Pe cine nu mai cheamă, pe acela îl uită cu desăv rșire. N-am vrut să vorbesc despre asta de față cu Frieda. Dar nu e numai uitare, e mai mult dec t at t. Căci...

kegilaan adalah suatu yang langka dalam individu–tapi dalam kelompok, partai politik, negara, epos, ia adalah peraturan…

The Idiot. I have read it once, and find that I don’t remember the events of the book very well–or even all the principal characters. But mostly the ‘portrait of a truly beautiful person’ that...

Death is a continuation of my life without me…

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...

ကြ်န္ေတာ္ကေတာ့ ႐ိုးေျဖာင့္ခ်င္သူမွ်သာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ကြ်န္ေတာ္ ႏွစ္သက္ သေဘာက်သလိုသာ သူမ်ားကို မထိပါးေစဘဲ ေနခ်င္ပါတယ္။

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.

There is no unmoving mover behind the movement. It is only movement. It is not correct to say that life is moving, but life is movement itself. Life and movement are not two different things....

Sky is not a limit for me; because I have no limit for myself in life. Because life is a world full of risk taking and possibilities. No matter how hard or easy life is;...

Since we are nothing but packages of tepid, half-rotted viscera, we shall always have trouble with sentiment. Being in love is nothing, it’s sticking together that’s difficult. Faeces on the other hand make no attempt...

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.

We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.

Strangman shrugged theatrically. “It might,” he repeated with great emphasis. “Let’s admit that. It makes it more interesting—particularly for Kerans. ‘Did I or did I not try to kill myself?’ One of the few existential...

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

aku telah melakukannya”–kata ingatanku.”aku tidak mungkin telah melakukannya”–kata kesombonganku dan tetap tidak tergoyahkan. akhirnya–ingatanku menyerah

The universe is not a thing that is, it is not a thing at all. It is the very action of its going. It is, in fact, its own dissolves and our lives – the...

What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only afterwards, defines himself. If man, as the existentialist conceives him,...

Logica e de neclintit, dar aceasta nu-i rezista unui om care vrea sa traiasca.

A sense of his own identity came upon him with sudden force, and he felt the power of it. He was himself, and he knew what he had been.

The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days… and yet we were profoundly separated from her.

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

Nietzsche says very clearly all the way through his career that if you want to define human nature the first thing you must say is that human beings insist on value–we see the world through...

[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive.

How did I picture the life after the grave?I Fairly bawled out at him: ‘A life in which I can remember this life on earth. That’s all I want of it.

He realized that time, clocks ticking, everything is just a human-made concept. That clocks didn’t tick back in the times he was seeing now, and he realized that the sun never sets as long as...

Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.

The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed...

I ascended, I ascended, I dreamt, I thought,—but everything oppressed me. A sick one did I resemble, whom bad torture wearieth, and a worse dream reawakeneth out of his first sleep.—But there is something in...

Our greatest challenge today…is to couple conviction with doubt. By conviction, I mean some pragmatically developed faith, trust, or centeredness; and by doubt I mean openness to the ongoing changeability, mystery, and fallibility of the...

Gövde, bir kere yaşamaya başlayınca, bu işe kendi kendine devam eder. Ama düşünce öyle değil. Düşünceyi ben sürdürür, ben geliştiririm. Varoluşmaktayım. Varoluşmakta olduğumu düşünüyorum. Şu varoluşma duygusu ne kıvıl kıvıl bir şey! Onu ben sürdürüyorum...

But Viv, if I’ve learned anything at all in the last eight years of my life? It’s that people just like to tell themselves stories about where they came from. They can’t help themselves. They...

That’s something we all want to know, isn’t it? Is there a “purpose” to our form and substance? Or are we simply the random result of billions of years of chemical reactions and accidents influenced...

We co-existed in peaceful detachment