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ABSTRACT: 'Knowing- Self' plays a prominent role in the human journey. To build harmonious society 'understanding between self and world' is important. A sympathetic awareness on the issue or ability to understand something in life is called understanding. When man understands truth in life, the possibility of mental and physical sufferings like unknown fear, anxiety, and depression may not exist in human life. In 'As You Like It', Shakespeare's quote "All the world's a stage and all men and women merely players" depicts human connection with drama. In the journey of human life, everyone has to face sufferings without a chance of escape. The philosophical theory of absurdity states that human life is a clash between self and world. It claims that human life is meaningless, hopeless and uncertain in the modern world. Nihilism stood as a profound philosophical phenomenon to challenge individual's identity for social well-being. Moreover, Nietzsche's Nihilism is a response to the erosion of traditional values and Christian beliefs. Passive nihilist can be called pessimistic because he lives in suffering with a psychological trauma. But Active nihilist tries to make his suffering into a meaningful suffering by creating hope in hopeless conditions. The paper is aimed to explore how Nietzsche's views on human sufferings with reference to Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra Samuel Beckett's Endgame and Badal Sircar's Procession