304 Quotes About Nihilism

But the conquest of fear was what fascinated them. The continual ecstasy of vanquishing and the consciousness that no one could vanquish them was what attracted them.

E questo l'errore centraledell'immaginazione letteraria: essa suppone che gli altri sono noi e che devono sentirsi come noi. (Feltrinelli, Economica Universale Feltrinelli; p.43)

Só é saudável em nós aquilo pelo que não somos especificamente nós mesmos: são nossas aversões que nos individualizam; nossas tristezas que nos concedem um nome; nossas perdas que nos fazem possuidores de nosso eu. Só somos nós mesmos pela soma de nossos fracassos.

Gdyby wszyscy myśleli tak samo jak ja, nikt nigdy nie wyszedłby ze swojego pokoju.I byłby to dobry świat. W którym nie byłoby wojen, gwałtów ani dzieci nienarodzonych.Prawdopodobnie nic by nie było.I to byłoby dobre.Dobro to nieobecność zła.Albo jakoś tak.

Our lives are so brief and unimportant. The cosmos cares nothing for us. For what we've done; Had we wrought evil instead of good. Had I chosen to abuse the Apple instead of seal it away. None of it would have mattered. There is no counting. No reckoning. No final judgement. There is simply silence. And darkness. Utter and absolute...-Altair

what are you looking for? There is no Truth. There's only action, action obeying a million different impulses, ephemeral action, action subjected to every possible and imaginable contingency and contradiction, Life. Life is crime, theft, jealousy, hunger, lies, disgust,stupidity, sickness, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, piles of corpses. what can you do about it, my poor friend?

Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.

Mine is an enthusiastic and dionysian pessimism, like a flame that sets my vital exuberance ablaze, that mocks at any theoretical, scientific or moral prison.

That is why it has been repeatedly noticed that the human life is a theatre where the mask show takes place, and we are merely the actors of that show, having entirely identified ourselves with the masks and fooling not only others, but first of all ourselves.