Quotes About Nihilism

The nihilist is right in thinking that the world _possesses_ no justification and that he himself _is_ nothing. But he forgets that it is up to him to justify the world and to make himself exist validly.

Le nihiliste a raison de penser que le monde no possède aucune justification et que lui-même n'est rien; mais il oublie qu'il lui appartient de justifier le monde et de se faire exister valablement.

Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

Io ho desiderato, fino alla disperazione, di poter essere tutto per lei, fino al giorno in cui ho appreso, nel dolore, che è infinitamente più nobile non essere, per lei, assolutamente niente.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

How I wish I didn't know anything about myself and this world!

O existenta care nu ascunde o mare nebunie n-are nicio valoare.

Nothing more to pursue, except the pursuit of nothing.

Someday the old shack we call the world will fall apart. How, we don't know, and we don't really care either. Since nothing has real substance, and life is a twirl in the void, its beginning and its end are meaningless.

Plictiseala? O convalescenta incurabila.

We had nothing to say to one another, and while I was manufacturing my phrases I felt that earth was falling through space and that I was falling with it at a speed that made me dizzy.

You kill yourself only if, in some respects, you have always been outside of it all.

Exist? idei care au oarece greutate doar dac? avem bunul-gust de a nu le aprofunda; de îndat? ce vrem s? intr?m în detalii, s? le explic?m, s? le justific?m, ele se n?ruie ÅŸi îÅŸi dezv?luie neantul.

Cinicul este spectatorul acestei universale absente. El priveste - îndurerat sau rîzînd — la nimic.

Of all that was attempted this side of nothingness, is anything more pathetic than this world, except for the idea which conceived it?

Când ai înÈ›eles c? nimic nu este, c? lucrurile nu merit? nici m?car statutul de aparenÈ›e, nu mai ai nevoie s? fii mântuit, eÈ™ti mântuit, È™i nefericit pe vecie.

Nu exist? nici o soluÈ›ie pentru nimic, iat? premisa de la care ar trebui s? plec?m cu toÈ›i în construcÈ›ia actelor È™i gândurilor. În realitate, tot ce facem È™i gândim purcede din negaÈ›ia acestei premise.

Avec tes veines chargées de nuits, tu n'as pas plus ta place parmi les hommes qu'une épitaphe au milieu d'un cirque. / [Syllogismes de l'amertume]

Le dernier pas vers l'indifférence est la destruction de l'idée même d'indifférence.Emil

Ho trascinato tutti i miei si nel fango e ormai non aderisco al mondo più di un anello al dito di uno scheletro.

Faptul c? exist eu dovede?te c? lumea nu are nici un sens.

Sólo la percepción del vacío permite triunfar sobre la muerte, pues, si todo carece de realidad, ¿por qué habría de tenerla la muerte?

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.