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

Come, sleep and death; you promise nothing, you hold everything.

We are children of chaos, and the deep structure of change is decay. At root, there is only corruption, and the unstemmable tide of chaos. Gone is purpose; all that is left is direction. This...

To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.

The irrational, the human nostalgia, and the absurd that is born of their encounter – these are the three characters in the drama that must necessarily end with all the logic of which an existence...

Man’s first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger...

The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune,that makes us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we...

apa? kamu mencari? kamu ingin membanyakkan dirimu menjadi sepuluh, seratus kali? kamu mencari pengikut? carilah nol!

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

But other hordes would come, and other false prophets. Our feeble efforts to ameliorate man’s lot would be but vaguely continued by our successors; the seeds of error and of ruin contained even in what...

ေလာက၌ အိပ္မက္ မက္တတ္သူသာ မက္ရသည္ပဲ။ ဒါဟာ နႏၵာရဲ႕ အမွားေတာ့ ျဖစ္သည္။ သို႕ေသာ္ နႏၵာမျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ရေသာ ေမြးကတည္းက ပါေသာ အမွားျဖစ္သည္။ ထိုိအမွားေၾကာင္႔ စိတ္သိမ္ေမြ႔ရသည္။ အထီးတည္းႏုိင္ရသည္။ သူတကာႏွင္႔ ေရာလုိ႔ မရသည္။ တေယာက္တည္း ဖဲခြာထြက္လာတတ္ေစသည္။ ေ၀ဒနာခံစားရာ၌ ျပင္းျပေစသည္။ ေလာက၍ အေကာင္းဆုံးခ်ည္း၊ အလွကုိခ်ည္းျမင္ေစ၊ ေမွ်ာ္မွန္းေစၿပီး အေကာင္းႏွင္႔အလွဆုိတာခ်ည္း ျဖစ္ႏုိင္သည္ဟု ယုံမွားေစေသး၏။ စိက္ကူးယဥ္ေစ၏။ စိတ္ဒဏ္ရာ ရလြယ္ေစ၏။ ေမ႔ေပ်ာက္ခဲေစ၏။

When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.

They are so very cultivated, so very rich and so utterly charming. At the end of each day, they all ask themselves: ‘Is it time I stopped?’ And they all reply: ‘If I did, there...

If you want good luck; you must go out there and search for that luck!! Because luck is waiting for you to look for it.

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

A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can have peace only by refusing to...

The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists.

He thought, that all men, trickled away, changing constantly, until they finally dissolved, while the artist-created images remained unchangeably the same. He thought that the fear of death was perhaps the root of all art,...

The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness...

dari sekolah militer kehidupan: apa yang tidak membunuhku membuatku kuat

By dint of saying that I’m not alive, I accept the fact that people cease to regard me.

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

I started out a human being. But pretty much had all the humanity wrung out of me after passing the Bar and practicing law for ten years. Not sure what I am now.

The greatest discovery of the 21st century will be the discovery that Man was not meant to live at the speed of light.

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

HAMM:Scoundrel! Why did you engender me?NAGG:I didn’t know.HAMM:What? What didn’t you know?NAGG:That it’d be you.(Pause.)

I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.