304 Quotes About Nihilism

I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.

I must add... my gratitude to you for the attention with which you have listened to me, for, from my numerous observations, our Liberals are never capable of letting anyone else have a conviction of his own without at once meeting their opponent with abuse or even something worse.

Nothing matters very much and most things don't matter at all.

Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.

I like the idea of a black sun; like a black hole in space, sucking everything into darkness, where we came from and where we're heading

Certainty is not to be had. But as we learn this we become not more moral but more resigned. We become nihilists.

Pero, en este mundo, nada hay tan cruel como la desolación de no desear nada.

I’ve always been suspicious of the assumption that great intelligence would be an unqualified benefit— that the madness that so often accompanies it can be cavalierly dismissed. So I asked the question: Suppose there were an entire subpopulation of extreme geniuses, well beyond anything that would occur naturally. What would that really look like?