I don’t really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves.

Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory….everything is forgotten, even a great love. That’s what’s sad about life, and also what’s wonderful about it. There is only a...

We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have...

Afternoon experience: autographing exposed legs, outstretched in lines like matchsticks. Afternoon epiphany: Those with smooth, hairless legs would soon lose all evidence of my contact when the sweat causes the ink from the marker to...

Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

perempuan dianggap dalam. kenapa? karena orang tidak akan menemukan dasar pada mereka. perempuan bahkan tidak dangkal

Para Sartre a existência precede a essência, no sentido de que existir precede isso que nós somos; e que somos o que nós mesmos escolhemos ser.

In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone who has not made a success of his life. But...

There is no reasonable doubt that existentialism will soon become the predominant philosophical current among bourgeois intellectuals.” (1949)

အႏုပညာသမားေပါ့.. စိတ္ကိုသိမ္ေမြ႔ ယဥ္ေက်းေစရံုမက အထီးတည္းႏိုင္ေစေသာ၊ သူတကာႏွင့္ မေရာႏိုင္ေစေသာ၊ တစ္ေယာက္ထည္း ဖယ္ခြာထြက္လာေစေသာ ထိုအရာသည္ ေဝဒနာခံစားရာ၌ ျပင္းျပေစဦးမည္။ အေကာင္းကိုခ်ည္း အလွကိုခ်ည္း ေမွ်ာ္မွန္းေစဦးမည္။ ခြင့္လႊတ္ခက္ခဲေသာ သေဘာထားေစမည္။ စိတ္ကူးယဥ္တတ္ေစဦးမည္။

Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing...

Integrity is unity of the personality; it implies being brutally honest with ourselves about our intentionality. Since intentionality is inextricably bound up with the daimonic, this is never an easy, nor always pleasant pursuit. But...

Life’s easy.It’s living it that’s difficult.

(…) provou que (o prazer) é um presente da divindade, ‘pois – dizia – o homem não pode dar a si próprio nem sensações nem ideias, recebe tudo; a dor e o prazer lhe vêm...

I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one’s burden again. ButSisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He tooconcludes that all is well. This universe...

You know, everything’s a sort of lie, and then you die.

We shall have thousands of Shatovs to deal with

Pure logic is the impossibility by means of which science is maintained.

cinta mengungkapkan kualitaskualitas besar dan tersembunyi dari pencintanya–apa yang langka dan merupakan perkecualian dari dirinya: dalam artian bahwa cinta menyembunyikan apa yang biasabiasa saja

This existenitalist stuff sure is crap

Nothingness haunts Being.

I’d been living luminously between two eternities of darknness.

Dispassionately, reasonably, he contemplated the failutre that his life must appear to be. He had wanted friendship and the closeness of friendship that might hold him in the race of mankind; he had had two...

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

the sky here’s very strange. I often have the sensation when I look at it that it’s a solid thing up there, protecting us from what’s behind . . . [from] nothing, I suppose. Just...

[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....