From Albert Camus: “Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.”
Tag Archives: existentialism
Quote of the day 11/15/25
From Søren Kierkegaard: “The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
Quote of the day 11/10/25
From Søren Kierkegaard: “To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.”
Quote of the day 10/25/25
From Jean-Paul Sartre: “Commitment is an act, not a word.”
Quote of the day 05/23/24
From Soren Kierkegaard: “The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.”
Quote of the day 03/12/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “The point is there ain’t no point.”
Quote of the day 08/14/23
From Albert Camus: “Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
Quote of the day 08/11/23
From Albert Camus: “Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
Quote of the day 08/10/23
From Albert Camus: “I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
Quote of the day 08/09/23
From Albert Camus: “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”