Robert Frost Quotes

One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.

Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?

There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessness–like how a person alone for too long cannot feel comfortable when with others; cannot neglect that underlying the feeling of belongingness is the certainty, really, of loneliness, and nothingness, and so experiences life in that hurried, worthless way one experiences a mistake–he could no longer get at.

What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?

Whereas I think: I’m lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which I don’t occupy and which has no relation to me. And the period of time in which I’m fated to live is so insignificant beside the eternity in which I haven’t existed and won’t exist... And yet in this atom, this mathematical point, blood is circulating, a brain is working, desiring something... What chaos! What a farce!

I think life's an irrational obsession.

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

A novel is something, while despair is nothing.

My search not only failed, but I convinced myself that all those who had searched like myself had failed also, and come like me to the despairing conviction that the only absolute knowledge man can possess is this—that life is without a meaning.

The meaningless absurdity of life is the only incontestable knowledge accessible to man.

I searched all areas of knowledge, and not only did I fail to find anything, but I was convinced that all those who had explored as I did had also come up with nothing. Not only had they found nothing, but they had clearly acknowledged the same thing that had brought me to despair: the only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die.

Everything means nothing that is the only truth.

We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.

Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.

A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing , but one who does not believe in what exists.

Just as I do not know where I came from, so I do not know where I am going. All I know is that when I leave this world I shall fall forever into oblivion, or into the hands of an angry God, without knowing which of the two will be my lot for eternity. Such is my state of mind, full of weakness and uncertainty. The only conclusion I can draw from all this is that I must pass my days without a thought of trying to find out what is going to happen to me.

Hell is more bearable than nothingness.