Nihilist Quotes
23 quotes by 21 authors
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The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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You go to jail for drinking beer and then walking with your bike. You go to jail for smoking a joint. For abortion. This is…
— Janusz Palikot
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One cannot be a part-time nihilist.
— Albert Camus
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People always thought if no one believed in God and we were nihilists then people would go around murdering each other. That didn't happen at…
— Noah Cicero
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You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think…
— Tony Kushner
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He was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments - negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siècle, he was affirmation. Right through to illness…
— Jean-Francois Lyotard
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The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians…
— Garrison Keillor
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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 can't step in…
— Philip Johnson
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Yes, I'm reckless and sometime express no concern for my own well being, and I express a misanthropic view of the world, but to have…
— Marilyn Manson
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Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness…
— Leonard Baskin
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons or bones. It's…
— Bodhidharma
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I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on…
— Billy Corgan
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To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.
— Christopher Hitchens
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Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic.
— Marilyn Manson
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I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely…
— William Faulkner
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You are putting yourself in serious danger...' I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my shame. My shame…
— Marjane Satrapi
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NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.
— Ivan Turgenev
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The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake…
— Oscar Wilde
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Life," Garp wrote, "is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have…
— John Irving
Who Wrote These Nihilist Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 23 Nihilist Quotes as follows: