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Nothing. Nothing makes me happy. I like nothing, I tell her.
— Bret Easton Ellis
I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
— Ivan Turgenev
If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in. We are desperate with our dreams. What - oh, what - does that say?
— Steven Erikson
Christian theology is a hair's breadth away from nihilism.
— John Milbank
Nihilism is ... not only the belief that everything deserves to perish; but one actually puts one shoulder to the plough; one destroys.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
You don't realize all the things you have in this world, much more than you need, and you do much less than you can.
— Roberto Canessa
Freedom only gives you something to be sorry for.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.
— Albert Camus
In the chain of events, it is arbitrary to be sentimental about the passing of any one link.
— Johnny Rich
Habit: A shackle for the free.
— Ambrose Bierce
One cannot be a part-time nihilist.
— Albert Camus
Maybe we really are made of the same clay, maybe we really are condemned, blameless, to the same, identical mediocrity.
— Elena Ferrante
There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful
— Sarah Kane
There must be no final truths; only burning questions.
— John Marmysz
I do not teach students anything. I learn along with them.
— John Marmysz
All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force.
— Maria Montessori
It is intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
If you want to scare people, you talk about evil.
— Noam Chomsky
What can be broken, should be broken.
— Dmitry Pisarev
I might be a nihilist except that I don't believe in anything.
— Mitchell Heisman
I'm thinking maybe letting the latches burn is the right idea. Let everything burn until there's nothing left but ashes and cool rain.
— Rodman Philbrick
It's not nihilism is there's really no point to anything.
— Catherynne M Valente
Regimes collapse when people are no longer afraid and think they're no longer alone.
— Gordon G. Chang
That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.
— Eugene Ionesco
Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
— Rollo May
Say what you want about the deaf ...
— Jimmy Carr
If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.
— Reginald Horace Blyth
The point is there ain't no point.
— Cormac McCarthy
The laws of history tell us that only when the old is gone can the new take its place.
— Wei Jingsheng
Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
— Alain Badiou
In every life there are events that reshape one's sense of existence. Afterward, all is different and the past is dimmed.
— Annie Proulx
Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Nihilism is best done by professionals.
— Iggy Pop
Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests.
— Ambrose Bierce
Chasms are deceived by rumors of their depth.
— Marty Rubin
I don't see any point in nihilism ... just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else.
— John Green
Nihilism, there's really nothing to it.
— Dean Cavanagh
Certainty is not to be had. But as we learn this we become not more moral but more resigned. We become nihilists.
— Allen Wheelis
There are many options for how images can aggregate not to nihilism, but to significance, or to meaning.
— Cynthia Daignault
If a problem is irreversible, is there still an ethical obligation to try to reverse it?
— Chuck Klosterman
Traditional history appears to be the defacto recognition of every evil deed that failed to be stopped or eliminated.
— Dagobert D. Runes
It's still strange.
— Arthur K. Flam
Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.
— Ayelet Waldman
I suppose that without a God, NASA is my anti-nihilism.
— Marina Keegan
Happiness is a fortress.
— Fuminori Nakamura
A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant.
— Maria Montessori
The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism - nay, it is identical with nihilism,
— Leo Strauss
But when justice is done the world drops away.
— Anne Carson
All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.
— Charles Bukowski
True genius is creative and makes all from nothing.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If I were to share Jaques' existence I would find it hard to hold my own against him, for already I found his nihilism contagious.
— Simone De Beauvoir
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Like other lifeforms, we [humans] exist only to replicate ourselves.
— George Monbiot
Enlightenment, if left unclouded by pathetic fancy, leads to a very special and bracing sort of nihilism - positivist, rationalist ... merciless.
— David Bentley Hart
In account after account of exorcisms the demonic voices will propound nihilism of one variety or another.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.
— Ellen Willis
I feel as if I had been born dead underAmerican bombardment. — Stefan Bolea
Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?that the supreme values devaluate themselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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[R]eligious concepts are parasitic upon moral intuitions.
— Pascal Boyer
Nothing matters very much and most things don't matter at all.
— Arthur Balfour
The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognizable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called into question.
— Gustave Le Bon
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The locals died and shrivelled with the autumnal leaves as their plastic, seasonal smiles faded with the last of the holidaymakers.
— Moonshine Noire
I decided to give up meaningless sex, but then I remembered that everything is meaningless.
— Oli Anderson
If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.
— Albert Camus
Somethingism is better than nihilism.
— Anthony Marais
To think is to say no.
— Emile Chartier
The Universe will now be set right. Made over to fit my unique view of what should be. Let Nihilism reign supreme!
— Jim Starlin
I think all true stories are hopeful stories. I don't think there's any room for nihilism.
— John Green
Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special.
— Dean Ornish
A pessimist is a liar, unless he destroys himself, and no less of a hypocrite than a priest who defiles the holy.
— Mark Samuels
If you believe in nothing else, believe in your freedom.
— Marty Rubin
I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.
— Leonard Baskin
There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.
— Rebecca Solnit
I can't go on, I'll go on.
— Samuel Beckett
My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.
— Sebastian Horsley
That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally!
— Friedrich Nietzsche