7 Top philosophy books like Limbo by Dan Fox

If you liked the philosophy plot in Limbo by Dan Fox , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Similar categories in Carrie Brownstein's Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl book and Dan Fox's Limbo

• nonfiction
• audiobook

"I've always felt unclaimed."

-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

"I don't want to know what's going to happen. As frightening as that is in real life, it's a crucial aspect in creativity. Being predictable is boring, and it's also disheartening and usinspiring."

-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

"If someone didn’t feel included, if someone felt marginalised, they would form their own band, write their own fanzine, or just call you out on what they deemed racist or classist, sizeist, sexist, b…"

-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

"I suppose we were better observers than communicators; we were all subjects to be worried over, complained about, even adored, but never quite people to be held or loved. There was an intellectual, a…"

-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

Similar categories in Claire-Louise Bennett's Pond book and Dan Fox's Limbo

"If we have lost the knack of living, I thought, it is a safe bet to presume we have forfeited the magic of dying."

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond

"I only wish you could spend just five minutes beneath my skin and feel what it’s like. Feel the savage swarming magic I feel."

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond

"I haven't yet discovered what my first language is so for the time being I use English words in order to say things: I expect I will always have to do it that way; regrettably I don't think my first …"

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond

"Quite often I'm terribly disappointed by how things turn out, but it's usually my own fault for the simple reason that I'm too quick to conclude that things have turned out as fully as it is possible…"

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond

Similar categories in Donald Nicholson-Smith's The Society of the Spectacle book and Dan Fox's Limbo

• art
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• essays

"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

Similar categories in Joan Didion's South and West: From a Notebook book and Dan Fox's Limbo

• nonfiction
• essays
• audiobook

"I've never been any place I wanted to go."

-Joan Didion, South and West: From a Notebook

"It was the kind of Sunday to make one ache for Monday morning."

-Joan Didion, South and West: From a Notebook

"The devastation along the Gulf had an inevitability about it: the coast was reverting to its natural state."

-Joan Didion, South and West: From a Notebook

"The time warp: the Civil War was yesterday, but 1960 is spoken of as if it were about three hundred years ago."

-Joan Didion, South and West: From a Notebook

Similar categories in David Wojnarowicz's Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration book and Dan Fox's Limbo

• art
• nonfiction
• essays

"I carry silence like a blood-filled egg."

-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

"When they invented the car they invented the collision and the darkness of what time leads the willing body to do."

-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

"I crawled through the walls of every social taboo I could come across. I wanted to celebrate everything we are denied through structure of laws or physical force. I just did it quietly and anonymousl…"

-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

"I wanted to be physically erased and start over again. I didn’t want to be here. I didn’t want to be there. I guess I wanted to be nowhere, I wanted to listen to my brain talk inside of nothingness. …"

-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

Similar categories in Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media book and Dan Fox's Limbo

• art
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• essays

Similar categories in Richard Howard's The Trouble with Being Born book and Dan Fox's Limbo

• philosophy
• nonfiction
• essays

Similar categories in Vladimir Nabokov's Laughter in the Dark book and Dan Fox's Limbo

"Death often is the point of life's joke."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark

"[S]urely the Cupid serving him was lefthanded, with a weak chin and no imagination."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark

"Death," he had said on another occasion, "seems to be merely a bad habit, which nature is at present powerless to overcome."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark

"A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s w…"

-Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark

Similar categories in Mark Fisher's Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures book and Dan Fox's Limbo

• philosophy
• nonfiction
• essays

Similar categories in Brian Dillon's In the Dark Room: A Journey in Memory book and Dan Fox's Limbo

Similar categories in Hannah Arendt's Illuminations: Essays and Reflections book and Dan Fox's Limbo

Similar categories in Mark Fisher's The Weird and the Eerie book and Dan Fox's Limbo

Similar categories in Alejandro Zambra's Bonsai book and Dan Fox's Limbo

Similar categories in Brian Dillon's Essayism book and Dan Fox's Limbo

Similar categories in Samantha Hunt's The Seas book and Dan Fox's Limbo

Similar categories in Elizabeth von Arnim's Elizabeth and Her German Garden book and Dan Fox's Limbo

• audiobook

"I shall not let myself be frightened away by the sarcasm of owls."

-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden

"We are none of us ever thankful enough, and yet we each get so much, so very much, more than we deserve."

-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden

", and there were days last winter when I danced for sheer joy out in my frost-bound garden, in spite of my years and children."

-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden

"Oh, I thought of calling it Journeyings in Germany. It sounds well, and would be correct. Or Jottings from German Journeyings--I haven't quite decided yet..."

-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden

Similar categories in Eva Baltasar's Permagel book and Dan Fox's Limbo

"Do you remember that movie we saw when we were little?"

-Eva Baltasar, Permagel

"Al cap d’un temps acabes descobrint que el límit es deixa viure, vertical com mai, a frec del no-res, i que no només és possible habitar-hi sinó que també s’hi pot créixer de maneres diferents. Si de…"

-Eva Baltasar, Permagel

"«¿Recuerdas aquella película de cuando éramos pequeñas? —empiezo—. Se titulaba La gran evasión. La vimos con papá al menos siete u ocho veces. Iba de unos aviadores americanos reclusos en un campo de…"

-Eva Baltasar, Permagel

Similar categories in Hiroko Oyamada's The Hole book and Dan Fox's Limbo

"I moved out here with my husband."

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole

"It's just, families are strange things, aren't they? You have this couple: one man, one woman. A male and a female, if you will. They mate, and why? To leave children behind. And what are the childre…"

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole

"Abrí la ventana y oí a las cigarras cantar. No sé si era porque estaba en el campo y había muchos árboles o por la influencia del clima de ese año, pero nunca las había oído con tanta intensidad. Era…"

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole

Similar categories in Madeline Cash's Earth Angel book and Dan Fox's Limbo

Similar categories in Deborah Levy's Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3) book and Dan Fox's Limbo

• nonfiction
• essays

"É difícil reivindicar fragilidade e força em igual proporção, mas é essa mistura que nos constitui a todos"

-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

"A história neste livro era sobre uma mulher que oferece a sua vida a um homem. Não se deve tentar isso em casa, mas é normalmente aí que acontece."

-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

"The story in this book was about a woman who has gifted her life to a man. This is not something to be tried at home but it is usually where it happens."

-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

"One of these men told me at a book festival that if he did not transgress too many boundaries in his marriage, there would always be a comforting pair of slippers warming for him by the fire...Will t…"

-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

Similar categories in Katharina Volckmer's The Appointment book and Dan Fox's Limbo

• audiobook

"I think that our bodies know things long before our minds, Dr. Seligman; they will have all the words written on them long before our tongues can find them and our teeth can pull them apart in the em…"

-Katharina Volckmer, The Appointment

"All that rubbish about souls is simply not true, that you can love a soul independent of the shape it comes in. Our brains are made so that we can only love a cat as a cat and not as a bird or an ele…"

-Katharina Volckmer, The Appointment

"For the first time in my life, I feel like I am being strong for the two of us, like I have broken free from those chains of lipstick and perfect hair and can take pride in my worn feet and the hair …"

-Katharina Volckmer, The Appointment

Similar categories in David Sedaris's The Best of Me book and Dan Fox's Limbo

• nonfiction
• essays
• audiobook

"I can't bear to hear other people's dreams unless I myself am in them."

-David Sedaris, The Best of Me

Similar categories in Annie Ernaux's I Remain in Darkness book and Dan Fox's Limbo

• nonfiction
• essays
• audiobook

"Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me?"

-Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness

"As I bend forward to check the safety catch of my mother's wheelchair, she leans over and kisses my hair. How can I survive that kiss, such love, my mother, my mother."

-Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness

Similar categories in Mark Fisher's Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures book and Dan Fox's Limbo

• philosophy
• nonfiction
• essays
• audiobook

Similar categories in Rachel Ingalls's Mrs. Caliban book and Dan Fox's Limbo

• audiobook

"Drugs,"

-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban

"Why do you call him a monster?"

-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban

"I can’t imagine living in a different time,"

-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban

"Still, people would notice a man with a green head. I guess I should get you a wig."

-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban

Similar categories in B.R. Yeager's Negative Space book and Dan Fox's Limbo

"I don't know whether I actually did anything. Whether I was actually responsible for or had any influence on her escape. But I let her believe it, because it meant the world could be something more t…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could raise anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could erase anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I'm there now. Tell me I will succeed. That it's the world blinking out and not me, like the ones I've loved and tried to pull back. Tell me he'll never set the world afire. Tell me so I can finally …"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

Similar categories in Maeel Renouard's Fragments of an Infinite Memory: My Life with the Internet book and Dan Fox's Limbo

• philosophy
• nonfiction
• essays

"Those who think that the realization of the dream of immortality is now only a matter of time have speculated on the scenario of downloading—or backing up—the entire contents of our brain on an extre…"

-Maeel Renouard, Fragments of an Infinite Memory: My Life with the Internet

Similar categories in Polly Barton's Fifty Sounds book and Dan Fox's Limbo

• nonfiction
• essays

"Over time, I have come to believe that if language learning is anything, it is the always-bruised but ever-renewing desire to draw close: to a person, a territory, a culture, an idea, an indefinable …"

-Polly Barton, Fifty Sounds

"Very often a desire to write is a desire to live more honestly through language' (Rachel Cusk)…In writing, one can be at a remove not only from the observing eye of society, but also from the somatic…"

-Polly Barton, Fifty Sounds

"Oh, my son loves Japan!" she says, her voice soaring. "He's been studying Japanese, all by himself, and he went there recently actually for the first time, and he said he just felt immediately at hom…"

-Polly Barton, Fifty Sounds

"Oh, my son loves Japan!" she says, her voice soaring. "He's been studying Japanese, all by himself, and he went there recently actually for the first time, and he said he just felt immediately at hom…"

-Polly Barton, Fifty Sounds

Similar categories in Sam Sax's Pig: Poems book and Dan Fox's Limbo

• audiobook

Similar categories in Ellena Savage's Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding book and Dan Fox's Limbo

• nonfiction
• essays

"Sadness is not always a terrible illness. Sadness is, perhaps, the most honest response to living."

-Ellena Savage, Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding

"I need to manage the unmanageable, to contain, correct and formalise the world, because I need to survive it."

-Ellena Savage, Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding

"Is 'self-care' a neoliberal scam promoting individualistic coping strategies in the absence of broader social obligations or the possibility of radical structural change? (Well, yes, I say to myself …"

-Ellena Savage, Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding

"If there is always a question, and I believe there is, in this case it is this: where is home and what is freedom. The promise we accept is that freedom is the freedom to make ourselves anew, but in …"

-Ellena Savage, Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding

Similar categories in Dan Fox's Limbo book and Dan Fox's Limbo

• art
• literary criticism
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• essays
• audiobook