Quotes tagged ‘Nihilism’

(43 total)

“May the icy surge of eternity engulf the golden image of man.”

“That there's no end to misery and destruction. You cut the head off a snake, and it grows another one. You cut that one off, and you find another. You can't kill it, because it's something within ourselves. You can call it the enemy if you want to, but it's part of us; we're all men.”

— Wendell Mayes, Capt. Murrell, Robert Mitchum, imdb.com

“After all — by some beautiful, random, completely unfathomable chance, your consciousness appeared. And it will disappear.”

— Heidi Priebe, medium.com

“Nihilism, narcissism, and hedonism are natural results of the chaotic existential subjectivism popularized by the Left. If the hallmark of the baby boomers was rebellion, the hallmark of my generation is jadedness. Nothing really matters—we’re cosmically alone.”

— Ben Shapiro, amazon.com

“I think becoming a nihilist is something that happens when you have been disappointed so much that you realize that everything is temporary; happiness is fleeting. That’s why I feel there has to be a way for someone to find value in themselves, where they say: ‘I do deserve to be here. Maybe society…”

— Chidera Eggerue, theguardian.com

“I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be than…”

— Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman, Alvy Singer, Woody Allen, imdb.com

“There is no right and wrong. There's only fun and boring.”

— Rafael Moreu, Eugene Belford / 'The Plague' / Mr. Babbage, Fisher Stevens, imdb.com

“Revenge is not hard to fathom for a man who believes in nothing.”

— Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Bruce Feirstein, James Bond, Pierce Brosnan, imdb.com

“The purpose of life is to end.”

— Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, Agent Smith, Hugo Weaving, imdb.com

“My world doesn’t exist anymore.”

— David S. Goyer, Chris Terrio, Clark Kent / Superman, Henry Cavill, imdb.com

“You know, you wreck everything you touch. Why not try and make something for a change?”

— Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois, Lilo, Daveigh Chase, imdb.com

“The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it.”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

“It is good to be a cynic—it is better to be a contented cat—and it is best not to exist at all.”

— H. P. Lovecraft, amazon.com

“For whom is it well, for whom is it well? There is no one for whom it is well.”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“What should we do? We have no wish to interrupt the destroyer's work of saving lives... But war is war and the people being picked up out of the water are soldiers bound for the front; soldiers who are to shoot at our German brothers... The question whether we are to perish in despair or defiance, o…”

— Martin Niemoller, spartacus-educational.com

“There is no God in the Badlands.”

— Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Quinn, Marton Csokas, imdb.com

“Revenge is not hard to fathom for a man who believes in nothing.”

— Neal Purvis (Story and Screenplay), Robert Wade (Story and Screenplay), Bruce Feirstein (Screenplay), Ian Fleming (Characters), James Bond, Pierce Brosnan, amazon.com

“My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.”

— Terence McKenna, amazon.com

“Doing something doesn't matter when the something is pointless.”

— Erin Maher, Kay Reindl, Zoe Parker, Meghan Rienks, imdb.com

“In case it wasn’t obvious, everything is fucked up and nothing matters. Have a pointless day!”

— Noah Kalina, twitter.com