Alice Cary Quotes

Life is a question without a standard answer.

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.

What is the meaning of life? It is too great a phenomenon to fit into any meaning.

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life

Life, what is it but a dream?

I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

There is much more mystery in the shadow of a man walking on a sunny day, than in all religions of the world.

I think, therefore I am ... not here.

A life that is, like any other, unlike any other.

Life may as properly be called an art as any other.

What is the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

People are concrescences of ambiguity.

My art and profession is to live.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates

Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

I am everything and I am nothing. I am just kidding; I am not everything and nothing. That would be ridiculous. I am just everything.

He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human."

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

Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me.

Mankind is a science that defies definitions.

Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and so it will be until the curtain drops.