Nihilism Quotes

135 Nihilism quotes by 77 unique authors

You don't realize all the things you have in this world, much more than you need, and you do much less than you can. — Unknown Author
Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat, it's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go! — Brad Pitt
The Sexual Revolution is a complete rebellion against authority, natural and supernatural, even against the body and its needs, its natural functions of child bearing.… — Dorothy Day
When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock. To… — Steven Pinker
Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle — Friedrich Nietzsche
I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending - an art (and… — William Kentridge
...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on the premise of… — Irving Kristol
For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity, and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice of the latter,… — David Bentley Hart
To think is to say no. — Emile Chartier
Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism. — Susan Sontag
The Stars are setting and the Caravan Starts for the Dawn of Nothing-Oh, make haste! — Omar Khayyam
I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless. — Leonard Baskin
Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. — Victor Hugo
Nihilism in American comedy came along way before 'The Simpsons.' There was a fairly nihilistic point of view to 'Saturday Night Live,' for instance, back… — Matt Groening
Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought. — Milan Kundera
Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant. — Alan Moore
Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something. — Dennis Prager
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is… — William Shakespeare
I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set… — Bruce Springsteen
Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature. — Cornel West
If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or… — Flannery O'Connor
The point is there ain't no point. — Cormac McCarthy
Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing. — Alan Moore

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