EXISTENTIALISM suggests that philosophical thinking begins with the human subject—not merely the
thinking subject, but the acting, feeling, living human individual.[4]
In existentialism, the individual's starting point is characterized by
what has been called "the existential attitude", or a sense of
disorientation and confusion in the face of an apparently meaningless or
absurd world.[5]
Many existentialists have also regarded traditional systematic or
academic philosophies, in both style and content, as too abstract and
remote from concrete human experience. (source Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism
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I found a link that is quite similar to the themes in Waiting for Godot and runs parallel to existentialism
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Solipsism characterizes one's mind to be the only thing that is real whereas everything else that is external can be doubted
Also this video has a great quote between the lyrics