“How did I picture the life after the grave? I Fairly bawled out at him: 'A life in which I can remember… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“We only have one life to live, and must go on with it to the end, that if we feel it is… — Susan Moody Copy Share Image
“I know we didn't accomplish anything, but it felt great to sit there and talk about our place in things.” — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“But despair and nihilism had been eating into me for years. The more I saw of the sad and futile dead, hovering… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
“HAMM: Yesterday! What does that mean? Yesterday! CLOV (violently): That means that bloody awful day, long ago, before this bloody awful day.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The combination of our mortality with our groundlessness imparts to human life its pressing and enigmatic character. We struggle to in our… — Roberto Mangabeira Unger Copy Share Image
“That's something we all want to know, isn't it? Is there a "purpose" to our form and substance? Or are we simply… — Peter Sinn Nachtrieb Copy Share Image
The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“..."I might be entertaining the idea of tamping down my nihilism. Just a bit. Not because life is not meaningless—I think that’s… — Daryl Gregory Copy Share Image
“To work and create 'for nothing', to sculpture in clay, to know that one's creation has no future, to see one's work… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“To act is literally to manifest preference about one set of possibilities, contrasted with an infinite set of alternatives. If we wish… — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
“One persistent attempt to find a thread in the history of mankind focuses on the notion of Reason. Human history, on this… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
“Sky is not a limit for me; because I have no limit for myself in life. Because life is a world full… — Temitope Owosela Copy Share Image
“Sleepless nights Spent looking at the ceiling Searching in those etched patterns For some sort of adhesive To glue together the broken… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“The true basis and propaedeutic for all knowledge of human nature is the persuasion that a man's actions are, essentially and as… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to be human. I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear X-rays, and I want to smell… — Patrick Di Justo Copy Share Image
“But other hordes would come, and other false prophets. Our feeble efforts to ameliorate man’s lot would be but vaguely continued by… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image