Nihilist Quotes

23 quotes by 21 authors

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
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
One cannot be a part-time nihilist. — Albert Camus
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
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
He was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments - negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siÃ¨cle, he was affirmation. Right through to illness… — Jean-Francois Lyotard
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
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
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
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
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
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
To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. — Christopher Hitchens
Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic. — Marilyn Manson
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
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
NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi. — Ambrose Bierce
The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists. — Ivan Turgenev
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
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: