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… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
We had the city trying to demolish two of our exhibition spaces, which was at first pretty disturbing. But following the freak-out… — Kirsha Kaechele Copy Share Image
Life," Garp wrote, "is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to… — John Irving Copy Share Image
You go to jail for drinking beer and then walking with your bike. You go to jail for smoking a joint. For… — Janusz Palikot Copy Share Image
I think I have in fact been situated in most of the squares on the political checkerboard, one after another and sometimes… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic. — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Maybe it's the Calvinist guilt about capitalism or mercantilism. But, I like the idea of doing things that only exist for as… — Momus Copy Share Image
The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I'm very proud that some people think that I'm a danger for the intellectual health of students. When people start thinking of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You are putting yourself in serious danger...' I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
People always thought if no one believed in God and we were nihilists then people would go around murdering each other. That… — Noah Cicero Copy Share Image
“You can say whatever you like to me. I make no moral judgments." Cassandra was slow to reply, momentarily distracted by his… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I am religious by nature, I'm not a nihilist. I don't follow, I don't even know what the tenets of things like… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I don't see any point in nihilism... just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else. — John Green Copy Share Image
Westerners think that all that is negative and positive is only caused from outside of themselves. They materialize and externalize their experiences,… — Thinley Norbu Copy Share Image
He was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments - negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siècle, he was affirmation. Right… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
I also eschew the identity of "puppeteer" it is a concept that blurs the boundaries of discrete objects and persons. I do… — Kalan Sherrard Copy Share Image
Maybe those nihilist philosophers are right; maybe this is all we can expect of the universe, a relentless crushing of life and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active,… — Leonard Baskin Copy Share Image
