Nihilism Quotes

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

What can be broken, should be broken.

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

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

The point is there ain't no point.

Say what you want about the deaf.

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

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

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

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.

The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognisable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called in question.

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

Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.

The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity.

Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism.

Nihilism is best done by professionals.

Habit: A shackle for the free.

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

Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.

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

Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.

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.

Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity.

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

Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism.

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

The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.

To think is to say 'no.'

In Nietzsche's view nihilism is not a Weltanschauung that occurs at some time and place or another; it is rather the basic character of what happens in Occidental history.

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

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

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

Peter had a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing.

Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat, it's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go!

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

The gun livens things up. The colonized European comes alive, not to the subject and problem of the violence of our circumstances, but because all armed actions subjects the force of circumstances to the force of events.

Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"--and want to create no value themselves.

Meanings generating meanings - the process has backed us into a particular corner, a kind of cave, where sunlight seldom enters.

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

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

Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.

One cannot be a part-time nihilist.

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

Suffering is a byproduct of evolution by natural selection, an inevitable consequence that may worry us in our more sympathetic moments but cannot be expected to worry a tiger - even if a tiger can be said to worry about anything at all - and certainly cannot be expected to worry its genes.

Continental thinkers have been obsessed with bourgeois man as representing the worst and most contemptible failure of modernity, which must at all costs be overcome. Nihilism in its most palpable sense means that the bourgeois has won, that the future, all foreseeable futures, belong to him, that all heights above him and all depths beneath him are illusory and that life is not worth living on these terms.

Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests.

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

Break, beat up everything, beat and destroy! Everything that's being broken is rubbish and has no right to life! What survives is good

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

Just to say "Well, God is dead" in one breath is to say, in another, that nothing means anything. This is the moment of nihilism. Nihilism is the affirmation of meaninglessness.