Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The Stars are setting and the Caravan Starts for the Dawn of Nothing-Oh, make haste! — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
You're all meaningless not even a whisper could stop me thinking you were meaningless. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism. — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
Nihilism is but the other side of conventionalism; its creed consists of negations of the current so-called positive values, to which it… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I'm unhappy and that makes me happy. Because I'm not stupid, I've intelligence, ergo I'm not stupid. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“What's disappointing is that it's just another mold, you leave one cliche and end up right back in another. Not really that… — Virginie Despentes Copy Share Image
Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves.They say: All that is worthlessand want to create no… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Peter had a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge… — Gorgias Copy Share Image
“Despair requires hope—some faint flicker of belief that things might change. I have none.” — Jonathan Harnisch Copy Share Image
It is of note that for a long time moral nihilism was a kind of unquestioned default position in analytic moral philosophy. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
“That is why it has been repeatedly noticed that the human life is a theatre where the mask show takes place, and… — Arvydas Šliogeris Copy Share Image
The great soul of power extends far beyond states, to every domain of life, from families to international affairs. And throughout, every… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Our lives are so brief and unimportant. The cosmos cares nothing for us. For what we've done; Had we wrought evil instead… — Assassins creed Copy Share Image
“So many truths have been kept from me. This violent, pointless voyage has been sopping with blood. I feel thick and sick… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“The lessons in measurement of cloacal forces. Time as a flow of sewage. The excrement of space, scatology of creation. The voiding… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Life has no direct meaning, in other words you give your own life meaning. But for me my life has no meaning,… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“Japanese people today think of money, just money: Where is our national spirit today? The Jieitai must be the soul of Japan.… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Existentialists try to find the answer to something so simple and that is what nothing is. Nothing is nothing, and if he… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche says very clearly all the way through his career that if you want to define human nature the first thing you… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
“The earth is not our home. We came from nothing, and to that condition our nostalgia should turn. Why would anyone care… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“The whole point is that time passes. That things fade. He is already hard to remember. Look, I used to cry because… — Janice Galloway Copy Share Image
We're decaying pieces of cabbage, on a cosmological journey to destroy everything. With no set purpose, but that is given by society.… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you a secret about the human condition. Nihilism leads to spirituality. And spirituality leads to nihilism. It is never… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat… — John Green Copy Share Image
When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Don't most astrophysicists now predict some "end of the line" - an end to it all? Not just the death of things,… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“But the conquest of fear was what fascinated them. The continual ecstasy of vanquishing and the consciousness that no one could vanquish… — Fydor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Suicide attacks are the actions of losers who have nothing left to lose. In this case, Islam serves as a mask, a… — Walter Kasper Copy Share Image
“...not positive about the definition of existentialism but it seems like the opposite of nihilism in which case I suppose I may… — Autumn Copy Share Image