Quotes About Nihilism

Man is a useless passion. It is meaningless that we live and it is meaningless that we die.

Anyhow, isn't it better to think we've got here by mistake?

It was true, I had always realized it—I hadn't any "right" to exist at all. I had appeared by chance, I existed like a stone, a plant, a microbe. I could feel nothing to myself but an inconsequential buzzing. I was thinking…that here we are eating and drinking, to preserve our precious existence, and that there's nothing, nothing, absolutely no reason for existing.

The only being which can be called free is the being which nihilates its being.

here we are, all of us, eating and drinking to preserve our precious existence, and that there's nothing, nothing, absolutely no reason for existing.

I don't like nihilistic characters. As bad guys they're great, but as heroes they don't work.

I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.

I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.

I'd rather be an angry optimist than an angry nihilist.

You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.

You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.

He did not look up because he knew how senseless the landscape would appear. It takes energy to invest life with meaning, and at present this energy was lacking. He knew how things could stand bare, their essence having retreated on all sides to beyond the horizon, as if impelled by a sinister centrifugal force.

insight," and the "message" of his books (which is no message at all) is similar to Gogol's in Nabokov's summary: "Something is very wrong and all men are mild lunatics engaged in petty pursuits that seem to them very important, while an

Art as the single superior counter-force against all will to negation of life, art as the anti-Christian, anti-Buddhist, anti-Nihilist par excellence.

T]he worst kind of nihilist—the kind who isn't even aware he's a nihilist.

Most of us will still take nihilism over neanderthalism.

Nothing can come of nothing.

Emmi sprach zu Hillegonda vom Tod, um ihr die Nichtigkeit des Lebens zu beweisen, und sie führte sie in die hohen dunklen Kirchen, um ihren Sinn auf die Ewigkeit zu lenken, aber die kleine Hillegonda schauderte vor dem Tod und fror in den Kirchen.

Come aboard if your destination is oblivion - it should be our next stop.

Human nature always retains its spiritual character - its bond with the transcendent and the divine. If it were to lose this, it must lose itself and become the servant of lower powers, so that secular civilization, as Nietzsche saw, inevitably leads to nihilism and to self-destruction.

It's the kind of day that might make you wonder about the meaning of life, and discover that there is none.

??i tôi là m?t h? vô không vi?t hoa.

It was not living, it was vegetation. We longed for death.

There's something nihilistic about not having children