Quotes tagged ‘Nihilism’

(43 total)

“The mode of this world passes away.”

“If I had a desire, it would be to be free from desire.”

“They were given the choice to be kings or messengers. Like children, they all wanted to be messengers. That is why they're running through each other and shouting to each other their meaningless messages because there are no kings. They would love to put an end to their miserable lives, but they do…”

— Franz Kafka, amazon.com

“There is no answer. Merely the blank violence of the sun.”

— Nick Land, amazon.com

“There’s only a tiny heartbeat and solitude, bright sunny wall and a sense of no escape. Time that doesn’t move, time that couldn’t be called time. And trapped in the heart of light: the little prisoner, unflinching.”

— Donna Tartt, Theodore Decker, amazon.com

“If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.”

— Alan Watts, amazon.com

“Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb, but they refuse. They cling to the realm or the gods or love. Illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.”

— David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, Petyr Baelish, Aidan Gillen, imdb.com

“There is no joy in continuity, in the perpetual. We desire it only because the present is empty.”

— Alan W Watts, amazon.com

“Human desire tends to be insatiable.”

— Alan W Watts, amazon.com

“You cannot understand life and its mysteries as long as you try to grasp it. Indeed, you cannot grasp it, just as you cannot walk off with a river in a bucket. If you try to capture running water in a bucket, it is clear that you do not understand it and that you will always be disappointed, for in…”

— Alan W Watts, amazon.com

“If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.”

— Alan Watts, Alan W Watts, amazon.com

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

“There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.”

— Miranda July, amazon.com

“This is a problem. There is no solution.”

— !Forward Russia!, open.spotify.com

“I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“How nice — to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com

“I'm tired of waiting to die. Let's go out.”

— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com

“Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting,…”

— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com

“The human being is the utter strangeness of action between two nothings. The self is a potentiality for being whose sole basis, limit, and condition of possibility is a double nothing, a double impotentialization, which of course is to say that it is also its condition of impossibility, an existenti…”

— Simon Critchley, amazon.com

“The aim is lacking; 'why?' finds no answer.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com