304 Quotes About Nihilism

I had always suspected myself of being almost purposeless, of not really having any single serious reason for existing. Now I was convinced, in the face of the facts themselves, of my personal emptiness.

Kevin is right about his cat. It’s all there in his dead cat. The Great Judge can’t answer Kevin: ‘Why did my cat die?’ Answer: ‘Damned if I know.’ There is no answer; there is only a dead animal that just wanted to cross the street. We’re all animals that want to cross the street only something mows us down half-way across that we never saw.

The Great Deoxidation Event is coming, get busy in your final struggle.

The Great Deoxidation Event is coming, get busy with your final struggle, don't make no difference to the Universe, one way or the other.

What saves us from succumbing to utter meaninglessness is not reason but instinct.

…ours is a world about which we pretend to have more and more information but which seems to us increasingly devoid of meaning.

One explains things until things have no meaning anymore.

Non-semnificaţia iubirilor mele & nonşalanţa cu care au fost ele aruncate la gunoi mi-au ciopârţit în primul rând sufletul, mi-au provocat acea stupefacţie care mi-a umplut nebunia cu vitriol.

That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness.