Existentialism Prints

"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.' "

'The Existential Files.'

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

"Okay, now what?"

The Bluebird of Nothingness.

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

Life - from start to finish

Optimist

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

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

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

'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

Waiting For Godot And The Cable Guy

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

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

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

No Easy Answers

Soren Kierkegaard

"What are we?"

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

Tom's last day.

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

"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?"

"Stop telling me to live in the present!"

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

Relevant from 1962-1980

"Never mind 'what does it all mean?' What does anything mean?"

The human condition

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