Existential Philosophy


The Stranger
Fear and Trembling
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Existentialism is a Humanism
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
The Myth of Sisyphus
Nausea
The Second Sex
The Fall
The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
At the Existentialist Café
The Metamorphosis
The Plague
Jean-Paul Sartre
This feeling of adventure definitely does not come from events: I have proved it. It’s rather the way in which the moments are linked together. I think this is what happens: you suddenly feel that time is passing, that each instant leads to another, this one to another one, and so on; that each instant is annihilated, and that it isn’t worth while to hold it back, etc., etc. (. . .) If I remember correctly, they call that the irreversibility of time.
Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

Zeon Vale
Divine Threads of Light Sometimes, God doesn't arrive as an answer, but as a question that tears you in two—stitching you back with threads of light. Life doesn't belong to you. You belong to life—and that's the first true freedom. ...more
Zeon Vale, The Call of the North – 42 Weeks and One Day

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