Top 12 Nihilist Quotes - Quoted Daily

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.

Noah Cicero

People, Credit, Nihilist

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

Unknown

Father, Nihilism, Nihilist

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

Richard M. Weaver

World, Action, Nihilist

Letter to R. T. Eubanks (January 19, 1961) in "Language is Sermonic", p. 56, 1970.

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.

John Irving

Memories, Nihilist, Ends

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

Ivan Turgenev

Facts, Nihilist, Dunces

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Richard Freeborn (1998). “Fathers and Sons”, p.54, Oxford University Press, USA

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.

Christopher Hitchens

Way, Nihilist, Decent

Christopher Hitchens (2001). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, Basic Books (AZ)