Nihilism Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

God will not act in our life if we do not take action ourselves. — Sunday Adelaja

Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked, to bludgeon the innumerate into a dumb acquiescence. — John Allen Paulos

Bodily delight is a sense experience, just like pure seeing or the pure feeling with which a lovely fruit fills the tongue; it is a great boundless experience which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the splendour of all knowing. Our acceptance of it is not bad; what is bad is that almost all men misuse and squander this experience, and apply it as a stimulus to the weary places of their life, a dissipation instead of a rallying for the heights. Mankind have turned eating, too, into something else: want on the one hand, and superfluity on the other, have dulled the clarity of this need, and all those deep, simple necessities by which life renews itself have become similarly dull. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I don't believe there's a red state in America where people believe you should cut Medicare, Social Security and veterans' benefits rather than doing away with corporate tax loopholes. — Bernie Sanders

Well, here's what you can do, and that's about it. — Kevin Kelly

Raif spared me the embarrassment of making me wear one of his Lord of the Rings outfits. — Amanda Bonilla

Everybody is a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way. — John Mayer

reached up and opened the top button of his shirt. "I am not getting married." "Not before a first date, anyway," Forrest teased. "You know me, Forrest. I don't do commitment." "I used to think that was true," his brother admitted. "But the last six months with Bennett have proven — Brenda Harlen

Most people simply didn't realize they could do things that bent their reality. It was kind of like growing up in a land with no deep rivers or lakes. If you never tried, how would you know if you could swim? But — Ilona Andrews

We all spend our lives kicking the crap out of ourselves for not being this way or that way, not having this thing or that thing, not being like this person or that person. — Shonda Rhimes

He wanted to ask her how many men had fallen in love with her. But she wasn't the kind of woman who let you ask that question. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

When I sat down beside them, their silence was lined with tenderness. We have to admire the world for not ending on us. — Colum McCann