Nihilistic Art Quotes & Sayings

How can we dream if we don't have words? — Patricia Forde

There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great. — Jonathan Shapiro

Could we not argue that America is about freedom, whether we live it out or not, but it really is about freedom, equality and the pursuit of happiness. And that's what church is all about. — Clementa C. Pinckney

To be insular is to be independent. But it is also to be alone. — Peter Ackroyd

For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song. — Christine McVie

My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay. — Harvey Fierstein

Nonsense often is the essence of life. — Debasish Mridha

The stories we tell ourselves to explain our actions are rarely the true reasons behind those actions. The deeper we look into this, the more we realize how much of it is going on. I said in the last part of this series that we are not rational animals - we are rationalizing animals. We act first, and then we come up with a story for why we acted. — Hugh Howey

Abandon desire for this world, and God will love you. Abandon desire for others' goods, and people will love you. — Ibn Majah

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. — Aldous Huxley

I think people have always misinterpreted my self-destructive nature as nihilistic, because if you don't care about the world, you can't create art. I am misanthropic and self-loathing, but never nihilistic. And I think I act far worse off-stage than onstage. — Marilyn Manson

When this immediate evil power has been defeated, we shall not yet have won the long battle with the elemental barbarities. Another Hitler, it may be an invisible adversary, will attempt, again, and yet again, to destroy our frail civilization. Is it true, I wonder, that the only way to escape a war is to be in it? When one is a part of an actuality does the imagination find a release? — Ellen Glasgow

I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins! — Mark Twain

Americans are now in disarray — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy has to be endorsed by the people if it is to be pursued. And it makes it much more difficult for any president to pursue an intelligent policy that does justice to the complexity of the world. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

God just turns on all the beauty He can possibly create, and that final Heaven on Earth, the eternal one of the New Heaven and the New Earth will be the most beautiful of all and the most perfect!-The perfect government of God administered directly and in perfection in every way! — David Berg