Top Nihilism Quotes

The rather difficult antagonists towards the Church consist not nearly of the cruel and heartless, nihilistic intellectuals who hate God and humanity, but the well-meaning spirits who for the most par...

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

Nihilism Definition

(n.) Nothingness; nihility.

(n.) The doctrine that nothing can be known; scepticism as to all knowledge and all reality.

(n.) The theories and practices of the Nihilists.

It's come at last, she thought, the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. When there wasn't enough food in the house you pretended that you weren't hungry so they coul...

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

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

Even the faded flower denies nothingness.

Nihilism, cynicism, sarcasm, and orgasm.

There are 200,000 species of fly alone. So the void, the emptiness, must be in you.

One day about a month ago, I really hit bottom. You know, I just felt that in a Godless universe, I didn't want to go on living. Now I happen to own this rifle, which I loaded, believe it or not, and...

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

Life to be bearable must be lived intensely. Through it a continuous stream of emotion passes. Though that emotion is ever changing as flowing water changes, it at least bears us along on a current th...

I do not teach students anything. I learn along with them.

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

As for the belief that humanity is mostly good, Secular humanism, when in that alignment, always presumes the existence of a higher power, or some god-like influence on man. Because it then becomes th...

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.

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

Nothing is more seductive than nothing.

If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical posit...

In all of its operations, cinema ceaselessly strives, and fails, to make present a world hopelessly beyond grasp. For this reason cinema is, in its very nature, a nihilistic medium.

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