304 Quotes About Nihilism

Time is the cruelest of physicians, healingAll wounds, but always slowly, loopingA surgical needle through the mind’s flesh, experiencingTorment again over again, repeatingUntil anesthetics bring an end to feeling.

There must be no final truths; only burning questions.

What's disappointing is that it's just another mold, you leave one cliche and end up right back in another. Not really that subversive or out of control.

The hunger for believing in good things, usually turns up as starvation.

Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.

Life of prosperity, they offer, is nothing but misplaySo, forget it; just eat, sleep, repeat anddecay.

Nowhilism: a rejection of the progress made in the past and ignorance of reality in the present

MASHA. Just think, I am already beginning to forget her face. People will not remember us either. They will forget.VERSHININ. Yes. They will forget. That is our fate, you can't do anything about it. The things which to us seem serious, significant, very important, - the time will come - they will be forgotten or they will seem of no consequence.

There is no such thing as progress or regress. The world is not getting better and better, nor is it getting worse and worse. It is simply moving along into the future, reiterating in different configurations the patterns that have already occurred. We can’t help but play a role in this unfolding drama, but it is a mistake to think that what we do makes any difference to the grand scheme of things.