I’ve been struggling with mild depression and existential dread for sometime now.
I’d like to some recommendations for books that cover existentialism and hope. Life feels very bleak nowadays.
I don’t have a recommendation, but I wanted to actually suggest a take on nihilism: Nothing has any inherent meaning or importance, and therefore you get to decide how to make your own meaning, and decide for yourself what is important.
I’m sending hugs.
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Hm, these are obliquely on existentialism, but they are books that helped me a lot, you maybe read already though, they are all pretty famous:
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupér
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Doestoevsky
They are all, obliquely or directly, on the choice towards meaning, which helped me a lot.
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Dostoevsky (Oxford edition titled A Gentle Creature and other stories has it. The other stories are also worth a read but they’re less relevant)
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I don’t have a recommendation, but I wanted to actually suggest a take on nihilism: Nothing has any inherent meaning or importance, and therefore you get to decide how to make your own meaning, and decide for yourself what is important.
I’m sending hugs.
Hm, these are obliquely on existentialism, but they are books that helped me a lot, you maybe read already though, they are all pretty famous:
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupér
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Doestoevsky
They are all, obliquely or directly, on the choice towards meaning, which helped me a lot.
The Old Man and the Sea helpled me a lot
I’m seconding everything u/Ordinary_Tap_5333 recommended.
I’ll also add:
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Stranger/ The outsider by Albert Camus
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Dostoevsky (Oxford edition titled A Gentle Creature and other stories has it. The other stories are also worth a read but they’re less relevant)