Great Nihilistic Quotes & Sayings

I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens. — John Maynard Keynes

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most. — Mark Twain

People don't generally like advertising that takes a stand. — Jerry Della Femina

My dad was an Arsenal supporter and he used to take me there, but I've always been Chelsea. — Eric Bristow

The imitation of Christ is the joyful participation in the sorrows of the world. — Joseph Campbell

O how he loves you, darling boy. Oh how, like always, he invents the monsters underneath the bed to get you to sleep next to him, chest to chest or chest to back, the covers drawn around you in an act of faith against the night. — Richard Siken

You should have seen his face when I started taking my clothes off. Priceless. — Stephenie Meyer

I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that's the lot. There's no mercy in things. There's not even a Great Beyond. There's nothing. — John Fowles

In this country, unfortunately, as all over the world, we care so little, we have no deep feeling about anything. Most of us are intellectual-intellectuals in the superficial sense of being very clever, full of words and theories about what is right and what is wrong, about how we should think, what we should do. Mentally we are highly developed, but inwardly there is very little substance or significance; and it is this inward substance that brings about true action, which is not action according to an idea. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you substituted networks for socialism, you got the Internet. Its competing platforms were united in their ambition to define every term of your existence. — Jonathan Franzen

what is right and what is wrong are simply different ways of understanding our relationships with the others, not that which we have with ourselves — Jose Saramago

Wards," said Oromis, "rely upon the strength of your body. If that strength is exceeded, you die. No matter how many wards you have, you will only be able to block attacks so long as your body can sustain the output of energy. — Christopher Paolini

Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims around the world to be defined by the narrow hatred and nihilistic actions of an exceptionally small minority of Muslims? — John O. Brennan

When I went to school, sex education was mainly muttered warnings about the janitor. — Frankie Boyle

Once you throw down that gauntlet of ultimatum, the "one more thing" will happen. Nat figured it probably wouldn't even matter much what it was. It would be the straw that broke her. And it had been defined. Prepared for. So it would happen. It was only a matter of time. — Catherine Ryan Hyde

Try to relax, and you will find out that you feel more tense than ever. Try harder and you will feel more tense and more tense. Relaxation is not a consequence, is not a result of some activity; it is the glow of understanding. This is the first thing I would like to relate to you: life is purposeless. It is very hard to accept it. And why is it so hard to accept that life is purposeless? It is hard because without purpose the ego cannot exist. It is hard to conceive that life has no goal because without any goal being there, there is no point in having a mind, in having an ego. — Rajneesh

Those who ignore or belittle karmic cause and result are followers of the nihilist heretics. Those who base their confidence only upon the view of emptiness will plunge lower and lower toward the extreme view of nihilism. Those who catapult into this negative direction will never find freedom from the lower states of existence and will be far removed from the higher realms. They say that doctrines emphasizing conventional meanings such as cause and result, compassion, and meritorious accumulations will not bring buddhahood, whereas the uncontrived definitive meaning that resembles the sky is what the great yogis must meditate upon. Among nihilistic views, that is the epitome; and among lower paths, that is the lowest of all. How amazing to claim that, by blocking the cause, a result can be accomplished. — Longchen Rabjam

Being insulted by a smart-mouthed little punk like you.. really pisses me off! — Sui Ishida