Nihilism Quotes

• Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  World, Dissatisfaction, Displeasure

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• what are you looking for? There is no Truth. There's only action, action obeying a million different impulses, ephemeral action, action subjected to every possible and imaginable contingency and contradiction, Life. Life is crime, theft, jealousy, hunger, lies, disgust,stupidity, sickness, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, piles of corpses. what can you do about it, my poor friend?

  Blaise Cendrars

  Jealousy, Lying, Volcanoes

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  Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

  Albert Camus

  Funny, Positivity, Bad Ass

  Albert Camus (1965). “Notebooks, 1942-1951”

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• What can be broken, should be broken.

  Dmitry Pisarev

  Broken, Should

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• The point is there ain't no point.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Existentialism, No Point

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• 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.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Smile, Other Worlds, Deep Thought

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• The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Education, Children, Growing Up

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.63, Penguin

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• There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Nothing To Lose, Dangerous, Loses

  "Prometheus Among the Cannibals: A Letter to Edward Snowden" by Rebecca Solnit, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2013.

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• I think human consciousness, is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself, we are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self; an accretion of sensory, experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody is nobody. Maybe the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight - brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.

  Unknown

  Brother, Thinking, Feelings

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• The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

  Albert Camus

  Feet, Intelligence, Mind

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1942-1951”

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• We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2003). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.30, Algora Publishing

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

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Way, Middle, Destroyers

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• Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.

  Brent Weeks

  Men, Sin, Crime

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sin, Virtue, Good Things

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.549, Modern Library

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

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Worst Enemy, Fight Club Novel, You Choose

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.141, Random House

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

  Albert Camus

  Despair, Desire, Negation

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.57, Vintage

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• Say what you want about the deaf.

  Jimmy Carr

  Want, Deaf, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

  Jimmy Carr, Lucy Greeves (2006). “Only Joking: What's So Funny About Making People Laugh?”, p.128, Penguin

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• If you want to scare people, you talk about evil.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Evil, Scare

  Institute Professor Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Noam Chomsky, Noam Chomsky, John Junkerman, Takei Masakazu (2015). “Power and Terror: Conflict, Hegemony, and the Rule of Force”, p.128, Routledge

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• the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering.

  John Green

  Suffering, Problem, Oblivion

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• Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.

  Dennis Prager

  Jealousy, Believe, Negative People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Intellectual, World, Lost

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Montessori Reader”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Years, Shadow

  The Gay Science bk. 3, sec. 108 (1882) (translation by Walter Kaufmann) See Nerval 2; Nietzsche 12

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• A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing , but one who does not believe in what exists.

  Albert Camus

  Believe, Doe, Nihilist

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.69, Vintage

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• If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Atheist, Atheism, Would Be

  Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (2009). “God and the State”, p.28, Cosimo, Inc.

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