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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity.

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