{"quotes":[{"text":"One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.","author":"Kurt Vonnegut Jr.","tags":["existentialism","humor","sarcastic-humor","satire"],"id":502,"author_id":"Kurt+Vonnegut+Jr."},{"text":"You can't have it both ways. Either you believe in my god or you go to hell.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["afterlife","agnostic","agnostic-atheism","agnostic-prayer","agnostic","agnostic","agnosticism","agnostics","atheism","atheism-defined","atheism","atheist","atheist-argument","atheist-arguments","atheist-claims","atheist-club","atheist-philosophers","atheist","atheistic","atheistic-philosophy","atheistic-religion","atheists","bangambiki","belief","belief-in-god","belief","belief-system","beliefs","believer","believing","debate","despair-and-attitude","despair-hope","despair","despairing","doubt","doubters","doubtful","doubtful-thoughts","doubtfulness","doubting","doubting-mind","doubts","doubts","ethics","existence","existentialism","faith","faith-in-god","faith-in-yourself","faith","faith-reason","faith-vs-reason","faithful","faithfulness","false-god","false-gods","fear-of-god","god","goddess","gods","habyarimana-bangambiki","heaven","heaven-and-hell","heaven-on-earth","heaven","heavenly","heavenly-father","heavenly-rewards","heavens","hell","hell","honesty","honesty-friendship-truth","honesty-from-within","honesty-integrity","honesty-integrity-relationship","honesty-integrity-words","honesty","hope","hope-and-despair","hope-for-each-day","hope","hopeful","hopeful-and-encouraging","hopeful","hopeless","hopelessness","hopes","hoping","integrity","integrity-of-a-salesman","integrity","life","lose-hope","materialism","meaning-of-life","morality","naturalism","paradise","paradise","paradises","religion","religion-and-philoshophy","religion-spirituality","religion-vs-science","religious","religious-faith","respect","secular-ethics","self-respect","sincerity","spirituality","spirituality","spirituality-vs-religion","supernaturalism","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom","there-is-no-god","unbelief","unbelieve","unbeliever","unbelievers"],"id":1477,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.","author":"Albert Camus","tags":["existentialism","meursault","profound"],"id":2487,"author_id":"Albert+Camus"},{"text":"It was chance. A random series of events given meaning by somone desperate to prove there's a design to our lives. That the minutes and hours between our birth and death are ore than frantic moments of chaos. Because if that's all they are - if there are no rules governing our lives - then our entire existence is a meaningless farce.","author":"Shaun David Hutchinson","tags":["chaos","death","destiny","existence","existentialism"],"id":2841,"author_id":"Shaun+David+Hutchinson"},{"text":"Civilization could not exist without tremors of desire and without the counteracting, negation force of disciplined denial. Nor would the gyratory pulsations of a lively civilization exist devoid of the convulsive chemistry of union and repellency. We are born with a desire to be immortal. Cursed with the knowledge that we must die, people live their orthodox lives out by displaying reckless abandon as to the outcome of human life or nervously hounded by utter despondency nipping their heels. How we resolve this decidedly human complex of carrying out our daily lives while burden by our inescapable mortality determines our essential character. The collation of similar values adopted by our community determines who we are as a people.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["attitude","attitude","attitude-toward-life","attraction","attraction","character","civilization","culture-and-attitude","culture-identity","denial","desire","desires","desires-and-dreams","desires","existence","existentialism","immortality","personal-development","philosophy-of-life","self-discipline"],"id":3758,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"A normal existence - what could be more irrational? It's fantastic the number of things you're forced not to think about in order to go from one end of the day to the other without jumping the track! And the number of memories that have to be driven from your mind, and truths that have to be evaded! 'That's why I'm afraid to leave,' I said to myself. In Paris, near Robert, I manage without too much difficulty to avoid the traps; I carefully mark them, and there are alarm bells to warn me of dangers. But alone, under an unknown sky, what would happen to me? What truths would come suddenly to blind me? What chasms would open before me? Oh yes, chasms close, truths fade out - that is sure and certain; I've seen it happen often enough before. We're like those earthworms one vainly cuts in two, or those lobsters whose legs grow back again. But the moment of false agony, the moment you'd rather die than mend yourself once again - when I think of it, I lose heart. I try to reason with myself: 'Why should anything happen to me? But why shouldn't anything happen to me?' It's never safe to go off the beaten path. It's true, I feel a little stifled here, but you get used to being stifled. And a habit is never bad, despite what they say.","author":"Simone de Beauvoir","tags":["existentialism"],"id":5027,"author_id":"Simone+de+Beauvoir"},{"text":"The Existentially Preoccupied Long Distance RunnerSometimes I like to run so hard and for so longwith each mile I can feel the pain of my own awareness,my own heightened consciousness of what ails me,the ills of the world,the limitations of our existence,the losses we must endure,the superficial interactions.Sometimes I like to run so hard and for so longthat I can feel all of these feelings seep out of the pours of my own skin,the sweat cleansing my very being,my awareness of beauty heightened,the experience of joy possible,each mile, each minute, ridding me of these feelings,washing away the illusions,showing me the truth.Sometimes I like to run so hard and for so long…until finally I feel free…until finally I AM free….","author":"Jacqueline Simon Gunn","tags":["endurance","endurance-and-attitude","existential-questions","existentialism","inspiration","inspirational-living","long-distance-running","marathon","running"],"id":6021,"author_id":"Jacqueline+Simon+Gunn"},{"text":"How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small.","author":"Paul Bowles","tags":["existentialism","humanity","life"],"id":6126,"author_id":"Paul+Bowles"},{"text":"I want my name to mean me.","author":"Mark Haddon","tags":["existentialism"],"id":8162,"author_id":"Mark+Haddon"},{"text":"...He said firmly, 'God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble.' 'Obviously,' I replied, 'they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it.' I, however, didn’t want to be helped, and I hadn’t time to work up interest for something that didn’t interest me.","author":"Albert Camus","tags":["existentialism","god"],"id":8518,"author_id":"Albert+Camus"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":617,"pages":62,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}