Nihilism Quotes

Belief and seeing are both often wrong,

— Robert McNamara

“Ubi nihil vales, ibi nihil velis”

— Arnold Geulincx

One cannot be a part-time nihilist.

— Albert Camus

“Happiness is a fortress.”

— Fuminori Nakamura

Everything is transiently meaningless.

— Jeremy Limn

Habit: A shackle for the free.

— Ambrose Bierce

Say what you want about the deaf.

— Jimmy Carr

What can be broken, should be broken.

— Dmitry Pisarev

All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force.

— Maria Montessori

Death is dissonance for the weak minded, but a constance for the stronger.

— Jeremy Limn

Life is meaningless. I see all aspects of life as negating.

— Jeremy Limn

“Nothing matters very much and most things don't matter at all.”

— Arthur Balfour

The laws of history tell us that only when the old is gone can the new take its place.

— Wei Jingsheng

Nothing is beautiful. Nothing is comforting.

— Jeremy Limn

[S]ince there is no wrong or right, you just reap what you sow.

— Peter Murphy

“The born again nihilist has nothing to blame for their fall”

— Dean Cavanagh

My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.

— Sebastian Horsley

I'm unhappy and that makes me happy. Because I'm not stupid, I've intelligence, ergo I'm not stupid.

— Jeremy Limn

There are many options for how images can aggregate not to nihilism, but to significance, or to meaning.

— Cynthia Daignault

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

Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat, it's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go!

— Brad Pitt

“Human race spoilers: we go extinct and none of this shit matters at all. So just enjoy yourself.”

— T.J. Kirk

“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

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

“Possibly, some cynic, at once merry and bitter, had desired to signify, in this pantomimic scene, that we mortals, whatever our business…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“No, what one wanted, really, was the city or anyone in it to see how one suffered. Of course, this being New…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending -…

— William Kentridge

“So many truths have been kept from me. This violent, pointless voyage has been sopping with blood. I feel thick and sick…

— China Miéville

“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

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can…

— Albert Camus

Horror, almost better than any of the other genres, pits the will to live against the will toward nihilism. I just think…

— Karyn Kusama

Fact is, the desperate desire to be cool has skewed our culture toward nihilism, carelessness, and ineptitude. It is now cool to…

— Greg Gutfeld

“Their view; it is cosmic. Not of a man here, a child there, but an abstraction: race, land. Volk. Land. Blut. Ehre.…

— Philip K. Dick

Science investigates, religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power, religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“But today’s society is characterized by achievement orientation, and consequently it adores people who are successful and happy and, in particular, it…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Continental thinkers have been obsessed with bourgeois man as representing the worst and most contemptible failure of modernity, which must at all…

— Allan Bloom

“I want to end my life like a human being: in Intensive Care, high on morphine, surrounded by cripplingly expensive doctors and…

— Greg Egan

“you make me laugh, with your metaphysical anguish, its just that you're scared silly, frightened of life, of men of action, of…

— Blaise Cendrars

“Filming a scene, there are countless takes of the same incident. Someone watching in the street - obviously a provincial - can't…

— Emil M. Cioran

“The new atheists show a disturbing lack of understanding of or concern about the complexity and ambiguity of modern experience, and their…

— Karen Armstrong