I think all true stories are hopeful stories. I don't…

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's…

— Phil Ochs

The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is…

— Michael Ignatieff

“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism.”

— Abhijit Naskar

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior to Inception…

— Armond White

“People may have to die, but morbidity will live forever.”

— Mara Wilson

“There are no greater or truer lords, gods, fathers, sons or holy spirits, than the humans. Humans are the highest beings on earth.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“To seek out the upright. No fall but preceded by a declination. He took great marching steps into the nothingness, counting them against his…

— Cormac McCarthy

“An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't find him.…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in…

— Samuel Beckett

“If we are unable to tolerate ourselves when we are alone, how can we expect anyone else to be enriched by our company? Before…

— Gerald Corey

Desire is this absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility. Ever optimistic, ever resourceful, desire tells us what it sees as it speeds…

— Wendy Farley

When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock.…

— Steven Pinker

Life packed a clever one-two punch: cruelty and absurdity.

— Dean Koontz