To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. And there is no decent or charted way of making a living at it.…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

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…

— Tony Kushner

“I am a socialist, a nihilist, a republican, anything that is anti-reactionary!... I want to turn everything upside down to see what lies beneath;…

— August Strindberg

One cannot be a part-time nihilist.

— Albert Camus

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

— David Foster Wallace

I'm very proud that some people think that I'm a danger for the intellectual health of students. When people start thinking of health in…

— Michel Foucault

The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Maybe it's the Calvinist guilt about capitalism or mercantilism. But, I like the idea of doing things that only exist for as long as…

— Momus

Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic.

— Marilyn Manson

I think I have in fact been situated in most of the squares on the political checkerboard, one after another and sometimes simultaneously: as…

— Michel Foucault

You go to jail for drinking beer and then walking with your bike. You go to jail for smoking a joint. For abortion. This…

— Janusz Palikot

Life," Garp wrote, "is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out…

— John Irving

We had the city trying to demolish two of our exhibition spaces, which was at first pretty disturbing. But following the freak-out is the…

— Kirsha Kaechele

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 higher power,…

— Ottessa Moshfegh