Nihilism Quotes

Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle

The deflation, or flattening out, of values in Modern art does not necessarily indicate an ethical n...

One day about a month ago, I really hit bottom. You know, I just felt that in a Godless universe, I ...

The philosophy that prepares a revolution and the sentiment that underpins the philosophy have, in e...

Japanese people today think of money, just money: Where is our national spirit today? The Jieitai mu...

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helples...

If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then...

But if one doesn't really exist, one wonders why..." she hesitated."Why one makes such a fuss about ...

But when justice is done the world drops away.

But then there's loneliness. However you might philosophise about it, loneliness is a terrible thing...

MASHA. Just think, I am already beginning to forget her face. People will not remember us either. Th...

Implicit … in the very idea of ordered liberty, was a rejection of absolute truth, the infallibility...

Disappear Here.The syringe fills with blood.You're a beautiful boy and that's all that matters.Wonde...

It was sometimes feebly argued, as the political and military war against this enemy ran into diffic...

Like the Nazis, the cadres of jihad have a death wish that sets the seal on their nihilism. The goal...

If a problem is irreversible, is there still an ethical obligation to try to reverse it?

If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?

I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential a...

The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself...

Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the wither...

Am I to leave this world as a man who shies away from all conclusions?

I praise, I do not reproach, [nihilism's] arrival. I believe it is one of the greatest crises, a mom...

I praise, I do not reproach, [nihilism's] arrival. I believe it is one of the greatest crises, a mom...

It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposi...

Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-dispos...

It is intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself.

She got up and he saw the skin of her thigh for a moment above the artificial silk, and a prick of s...

I want to end my life like a human being: in Intensive Care, high on morphine, surrounded by crippli...

I told myself: 'I am surrounded by unknown things.' I imagined man without ears, suspecting the exis...

If this was the true self it was marvelous and what’s more it seemed never to change but always to p...

This place is like the Army: the shark ethic prevails--eat the wounded. In a closed society where ev...

Kill a politician and you're tied to the motive that made you pull the trigger.

In account after account of exorcisms the demonic voices will propound nihilism of one variety or an...

There is no more hope for meaning. And without a doubt this is a good thing: meaning is mortal. Appe...

What do Chile, Biafra, the boat people, Bologna, or Poland matter? All of that comes to be annihilat...

Are we, intellectual sirs, not actively or passively 'producing' more and more words, more books, mo...

...freedom only gives you something to be sorry for.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.

Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations.

The new atheists show a disturbing lack of understanding of or concern about the complexity and ambi...

Possibly, some cynic, at once merry and bitter, had desired to signify, in this pantomimic scene, th...

To say that life is meaningless is to express an attitude, not to state a fact

Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.

I can't go on, I'll go on.

Yet I loathe the thought of annihilating myself quite as much now as I ever did. I think with sadnes...

If I were to share Jaques' existence I would find it hard to hold my own against him, for already I ...

If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in. We are desperate with ou...