I don't see any point in nihilism... just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else. — John Green Copy Share Image
The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway. — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
“[T]he worst kind of nihilist—the kind who isn't even aware he's a nihilist.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
We cannot be too energetic in reminding our nihilists and positivists that this is a world of action and history. — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing , but one who does not believe in what exists. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“One of my teachers told me I was a nihilist. He meant it as an insult but i took it as a… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic. — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
People always thought if no one believed in God and we were nihilists then people would go around murdering each other. That… — Noah Cicero Copy Share Image
To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. And there is no decent or charted way of making a living… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Nihilists expend everything and everyone except themselves. They are the indispensable men, without whom the world might try to live almost happily. — Helen Clark MacInnes Copy Share Image
You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
You go to jail for drinking beer and then walking with your bike. You go to jail for smoking a joint. For… — Janusz Palikot Copy Share Image
“Dying in our sleep won’t solve anything in the long run, even if a nihilist would argue it’s coming down the pike… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
“With nihilism, no discussion is possible; for the nihilist logic doubts the existence of its interlocutor, and is not quite sure that… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Yes, I'm reckless and sometime express no concern for my own well being, and I express a misanthropic view of the world,… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
We had the city trying to demolish two of our exhibition spaces, which was at first pretty disturbing. But following the freak-out… — Kirsha Kaechele Copy Share Image
“in courting a nihilist,2 Mr. Karmazinov most certainly had in mind his relations with the progressive young men of both capitals. The… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The proudest, the most independent of women, if I can but succeed in communicating my passion to her, will follow me unreasoningly,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think I'm a nihilist because it doesn't matter, none of this matters. We're all following the will of some unknowable… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
I think I have in fact been situated in most of the squares on the political checkerboard, one after another and sometimes… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“You can say whatever you like to me. I make no moral judgments." Cassandra was slow to reply, momentarily distracted by his… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“This rock has seen billions of years of living organisms and will see many more once we die and turn to dirt.… — Jon Morrison Copy Share Image
You know that trying to be a nihilist is real funny. Because you're doing something that you think requires effort. But basically… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
I am religious by nature, I'm not a nihilist. I don't follow, I don't even know what the tenets of things like… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“I never feel weird about being the main character in the nontransferable, nonexistent movie of my life. That’s totally fine. What makes… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active,… — Leonard Baskin Copy Share Image
Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Maybe those nihilist philosophers are right; maybe this is all we can expect of the universe, a relentless crushing of life and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am a terrorist and nihilist in theory as the others are with their weapons. Theoretical violence, not truth, is the only… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image