#existential

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. ↗

— Rollo May

#myths #myth

One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him. ↗

— Rollo May

#love #love

I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100. ↗

— Woody Allen

#humor #uncertainty #humor

I can't go on, I'll go on. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#drama #existentialism #fiction #humor #nihilism

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. ↗

— Albert Camus

#existentialism #probably-bullshit #love

Not every conflict is necessarily neurotic; some amount of conflict is normal and healthy. In a similar sense suffering is not always a pathological phenomenon; rather than being a symptom of neurosis, suffering may well be a human achievement, especially if the suffering grows out of existential frustration... Existential frustration is neither pathological or pathogenic. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#inspirational #meaning #mental-health #inspirational

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

— Mike Sasso

#insightful #inspirational #life #oblique #obvious

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

#existentialism #death

man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity ↗

— Paul Tillich

#freedom #freedom

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 being willing to admit our daimonic tendencies - to know them consciously and to wisely oversee them - brings with it the invaluable blessing of freedom, vigor, inner strength, and self-acceptance. ↗

— Stephen A. Diamond

#existentialism #anger