Nihilist Quotes

One cannot be a part-time nihilist.

Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic.

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

I am a nihilist because I still believe in truth.

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

People always thought if no one believed in God and we were nihilists then people would go around murdering each other. That didn't happen at all, we just bought a lot of things with credit.

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

The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.

NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.

Life," Garp wrote, "is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that is left is memory. But even a nihilist has memory.

We cannot be too energetic in reminding our nihilists and positivists that this is a world of action and history.

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. And there is no decent or charted way of making a living at it. It is something you are, and not something you do.