Quotes About Nihilism

Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

This existenitalist stuff sure is crap

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

Nothing can come of nothing.

Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.

Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.

in a sea of nihilism, passionate narcissism is the key determinant.

Nothing will come of nothing.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

You have no values. With you it's all nihilism, cynicism, sarcasm, and orgasm.

That's the truth of it; pile together everything we know and care about in the universe and it will still be nothing more than a tiny speck in the middle of a vast black ocean of Who Gives A Fuck.

The born again nihilist has nothing to blame for their fall

Authoritarians are frustrated authors. Frustrated authors not of books but of their own lives. They are soulless, unimaginative and nihilistic cowards afraid of their own and other peoples freedom.

Nowhilism: a rejection of the progress made in the past and ignorance of reality in the present

Everything is nothing.

Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.

He was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments — negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siècle, he was affirmation. Right through to illness and death. Why did I speak of him in the past? He laughed, he is laughing, he is here. It's your sadness, idiot, he'd say.

Nothingness lies coiled at the heart of being like a worm

As to the action which is about to begin, it takes place in Poland – that is to say, nowhere

American Nihilism is a mood; a mood of moodiness; a vague disquiet. It is Nihilism without the abyss.

Certainty is not to be had. But as we learn this we become not more moral but more resigned. We become nihilists.

There are some arenas so corrupt that the only clean acts possible are nihilistic.

so many people have been hypnotized by Aristotelian ''yes/ no'' logic to the extent that any step beyond that Bronze Age mythos seems to them a whirling, dizzying plunge into a pit of Chaos and the Dark Night of Nihilism.