Nihilism

The philosophy of nothingness and the freedom it paradoxically creates

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.

The universe is a cruel, uncaring void. The key to being happy isn't a search for meaning. It's to just keep yourself busy with unimportant nonsense, and eventually, you'll be dead.

Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.

We have created a world in which nothing makes sense.

Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.

Everything is meaningless, but meaninglessness is the most meaningful thing of all.

The highest values devalue themselves. The aim is lacking; 'why' finds no answer.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Nihilism is the belief that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

The advantage of emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Nihilism is not only a belief that everything is meaningless, but also the realization that meaning was always an illusion.

The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

In the face of an uncaring universe, we are free to create our own values.

Nihilism is the clean slate upon which we can write our own meaning.

The absence of God means the presence of man.

If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is meaningless.

Nihilism is the great liberation from the tyranny of meaning.

When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you.

The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.

Nihilism is the ultimate truth, and truth is ultimately nihilistic.