304 Quotes About Nihilism

I believe what you believe and you believe what you believe and we'll agree to disagree. It's liberal tolerance meets dark ages denialism. It's very hip right now.

They see a void. I see everything that fills it.

A writer who rejects happiness is like an astronomer who rejects the stars.

I think the suicide rate is so high among writers because we force ourselves to stand still, take an outsider’s perspective, and realise how quickly a life passes by, and how futile we are. The exhilarating upside is that at a moment’s glance all your worries fade away, and you can work on making the most of it.

Are all stories about the Law of Surprise myths?’‘Yes. It’s hard to call an accident destiny.’‘But you witchers do not stop searching?’‘No, we don’t. But it’s senseless. Nothing has any point.

What do Chile, Biafra, the boat people, Bologna, or Poland matter? All of that comes to be annihilated on the television screen. We are in the era of events without consequences (and of theories without consequences).

It's still strange.

Maybe we really are made of the same clay, maybe we really are condemned, blameless, to the same, identical mediocrity.

How stupid these nihilists are! Because I have to die someday, does that mean I shouldn't enjoy my life now?