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Nothing. Nothing makes me happy. I like nothing, I tell her. — Bret Easton Ellis

I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze. — Ivan Turgenev

If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in. We are desperate with our dreams. What - oh, what - does that say? — Steven Erikson

Christian theology is a hair's breadth away from nihilism. — John Milbank

Nihilism is ... not only the belief that everything deserves to perish; but one actually puts one shoulder to the plough; one destroys. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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. — Roberto Canessa

Freedom only gives you something to be sorry for. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate. — Albert Camus

One explains things until things have no meaning anymore. — Marty Rubin

...not positive about the definition of existentialism but it seems like the opposite of nihilism in which case I suppose I may be. — Autumn

In the chain of events, it is arbitrary to be sentimental about the passing of any one link. — Johnny Rich

Habit: A shackle for the free. — Ambrose Bierce

One cannot be a part-time nihilist. — Albert Camus

Maybe we really are made of the same clay, maybe we really are condemned, blameless, to the same, identical mediocrity. — Elena Ferrante

I was not okay for one thing.For another, I'd passed from simple misanthropy to nihilism, death of the spirit and beyond. — T.C. Boyle

There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful — Sarah Kane

There must be no final truths; only burning questions. — John Marmysz

I do not teach students anything. I learn along with them. — John Marmysz

All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force. — Maria Montessori

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

The problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering. — John Green

If you want to scare people, you talk about evil. — Noam Chomsky

What can be broken, should be broken. — Dmitry Pisarev

I might be a nihilist except that I don't believe in anything. — Mitchell Heisman

I'm thinking maybe letting the latches burn is the right idea. Let everything burn until there's nothing left but ashes and cool rain. — Rodman Philbrick

What saves us from succumbing to utter meaninglessness is not reason but instinct. — Marty Rubin

It's not nihilism is there's really no point to anything. — Catherynne M Valente

There must be somebody there, because somebody must have said Nobody. — A.A. Milne

Regimes collapse when people are no longer afraid and think they're no longer alone. — Gordon G. Chang

Nihilism has no point. There is no such thing as nothingness. Zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man — Victor Hugo

That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide. — Eugene Ionesco

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

The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky. — Anne Rice

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

If you could be either God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose? — Chuck Palahniuk

Say what you want about the deaf ... — Jimmy Carr

If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world. — Reginald Horace Blyth

Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism. — Susan Sontag

The point is there ain't no point. — Cormac McCarthy

The laws of history tell us that only when the old is gone can the new take its place. — Wei Jingsheng

Destroy or be destroyed-there is no middle way! Let us then be the destroyers! — Mikhail Bakunin

No system has ever as yet existed which did not in some form involve the exploitation of some human beings for the advantage of others. — John Dewey

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism. — Alain Badiou

In every life there are events that reshape one's sense of existence. Afterward, all is different and the past is dimmed. — Annie Proulx

Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Nature's not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it. — Ivan Turgenev

Nihilism is best done by professionals. — Iggy Pop

Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests. — Ambrose Bierce

Chasms are deceived by rumors of their depth. — Marty Rubin

I don't see any point in nihilism ... just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else. — John Green

Nihilism, there's really nothing to it. — Dean Cavanagh

Certainty is not to be had. But as we learn this we become not more moral but more resigned. We become nihilists. — Allen Wheelis

There are many options for how images can aggregate not to nihilism, but to significance, or to meaning. — Cynthia Daignault

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

Traditional history appears to be the defacto recognition of every evil deed that failed to be stopped or eliminated. — Dagobert D. Runes

It's still strange. — Arthur K. Flam

Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism. — Ayelet Waldman

I suppose that without a God, NASA is my anti-nihilism. — Marina Keegan

Happiness is a fortress. — Fuminori Nakamura

A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant. — Maria Montessori

The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism - nay, it is identical with nihilism, — Leo Strauss

The Stars are setting and the Caravan Starts for the Dawn of Nothing-Oh, make haste! — Omar Khayyam

But when justice is done the world drops away. — Anne Carson

All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality. — Charles Bukowski

True genius is creative and makes all from nothing. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If I were to share Jaques' existence I would find it hard to hold my own against him, for already I found his nihilism contagious. — Simone De Beauvoir

Like other lifeforms, we [humans] exist only to replicate ourselves. — George Monbiot

Enlightenment, if left unclouded by pathetic fancy, leads to a very special and bracing sort of nihilism - positivist, rationalist ... merciless. — David Bentley Hart

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

In account after account of exorcisms the demonic voices will propound nihilism of one variety or another. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism. — Ellen Willis

I feel as if I had been born dead under
American bombardment. — Stefan Bolea

Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?
that the supreme values devaluate themselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche

[R]eligious concepts are parasitic upon moral intuitions. — Pascal Boyer

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

Nothing matters very much and most things don't matter at all. — Arthur Balfour

The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognizable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called into question. — Gustave Le Bon

[S]ince there is no wrong or right, you just reap what you sow. — Peter Murphy

The locals died and shrivelled with the autumnal leaves as their plastic, seasonal smiles faded with the last of the holidaymakers. — Moonshine Noire

I decided to give up meaningless sex, but then I remembered that everything is meaningless. — Oli Anderson

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

Somethingism is better than nihilism. — Anthony Marais

Fat heard in her rational tone the harp of nihilism, the twang of the void. — Philip K. Dick

To think is to say no. — Emile Chartier

The Universe will now be set right. Made over to fit my unique view of what should be. Let Nihilism reign supreme! — Jim Starlin

I think all true stories are hopeful stories. I don't think there's any room for nihilism. — John Green

The negative always wins at last, but I like it none the better for that. — Mason Cooley

Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special. — Dean Ornish

Better to find one thing to live for than a thousand things to be against. — Marty Rubin

A pessimist is a liar, unless he destroys himself, and no less of a hypocrite than a priest who defiles the holy. — Mark Samuels

If you believe in nothing else, believe in your freedom. — Marty Rubin

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both. — Emil Cioran

Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. — Victor Hugo

The perfectly ordinary girl and the great philosopher are alike: for both, the smallest triviality can become the vision that wipes out the world. — Yukio Mishima

I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless. — Leonard Baskin

There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose. — Rebecca Solnit

I can't go on, I'll go on. — Samuel Beckett

My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway. — Sebastian Horsley

That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally! — Friedrich Nietzsche