Existentialism Gifts

"Now that I'm here, could you tell me what that was all about."

'Thank you for pretending you understand Kierkegaard.'

The Grand Scheme of Things: You are here.

'What's it all about?'

"Do you have any why-to books?"

"Godot says, 'Running late, frowny face, winky face.' "

"Okay, now what?"

'The Existential Files.'

"Look if I have to explain the meaning of existence, then it isn't funny."

Fred raises the "Late Bloomer" bar to a new level.

The Bluebird of Nothingness.

'Do you ever get that feeling that you're part of some gigantic cosmic jigsaw puzzle.'

'Do not look within. Trust me, you don't want to know what's in there.'

'Life is a precious thing, but simply breathing and existing isn't living...the end is inevitable for everything...I'm afraid that time has come for you, dear. I have to pull the plug...'

DNA strand as a tightrope, symbolising the fine balance of biological existence

Optimist

"All this pitching and hitting- I'm convinced there's a deeper meaning to it all."

'What would I do if I only had one day left to live? That's a good question. Why do you ask?'

Life - from start to finish

"Stop telling me to live in the present!"

"Who would like to discuss the concept of free will?"

"What are we?"

No Easy Answers

"My, oh, my, what a co-inky dinky."

"Could you tell me where I am? Not geographically - but in an existentialist way."

The human condition

"But, in the end, you will become bored with that, too."

"In existential philosophical news, today's surge in somethingness offset yesterday's decline in nothingness...."

Relevant from 1962-1980

I don't think...and yet here I am.

"When I ask you what you're thinking about and you say 'Nothing', is that 'nothing' as in the Infinite Void, the emptiness of Zen, the nothingness of Sartre and Lacan, ex nihilo nihil fit, or what?"

Waiting For Godot And The Cable Guy

Soren Kierkegaard

'I never heard anything like that before. What does it mean?'

Tom's last day.