Quotes for All
I like the idea of being sort of withdrawn and mysterious, and what can be more mysterious that someone wearing a trash bag, like a dark trash bag, with eye holes that say nihilism? You’d be curious. What’s underneath that? Is it perfect? Or is it broken? Eugene Mirman
Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect. They know that basic human problems can have no final solutions, that our freedom, justice, equality, etc. are far from absolute, and that the good life is compounded of half … Read more
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
To think is to say ‘no.’ Emile Chartier
I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism. Ellen Willis
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. Fyodor Dostoevsky
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
That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the \”meaningless\”) eternally! Friedrich Nietzsche
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
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. Friedrich Nietzsche