Action Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is…

— Michael Ignatieff

Though nihilism has been relentlessly criticized for overemphasizing the dark side of human experience, it might be equally true that this overemphasis represents a…

— John Marmysz

“If the Niess were merely human, the world built on their inhumanity would fall apart. So… they made us.”

— N.K. Jemisin

“The philosophy that prepares a revolution and the sentiment that underpins the philosophy have, in every case the two pillars of nihilism and mysticism.”

— Yukio Mishima

“...only the one who knows and practices the iconoclastic fury of destruction can possess the joy born of freedom, of that unique freedom fertilized…

— Renzo Novatore

“..."I might be entertaining the idea of tamping down my nihilism. Just a bit. Not because life is not meaningless—I think that’s inarguable. It’s…

— Daryl Gregory

“Everything about them is blighted, dead. Feelings flake off & fall in dust. The senses, vitrified, can no longer experience pleasure; they crack at…

— Blaise Cendrars

“Here were the luxury and priviledge of the well-fed man scoffing at all hopes and progress for the rest. [He] owed nothing to a…

— Ian McEwan

“The notion of nothingness is not characteristic of laboring humanity: those who toil have neither time nor inclination to weigh their dust; they resign…

— Emil Cioran

“At an early age I found myself facing the incomprehensible, the unthinkable, death. Ever since, I have known nothing on this earth can be…

— Edmond Jabès

“With its grace and carelessness, it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though [all] could be swept into…

— George Orwell

“It is a weakness to think that any one is dependent on me, and that I can do good to another. This belief is…

— Swami Vivekananda