38 Optimistic Nihilism Quotes With Images

38 Optimistic Nihilism Quotes With Images

Last updated on March 6th, 2024 at 10:29 am

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Nihilism is the rejection and non-acceptance of all religious and moral principles, believing that life is meaningless. Philosophically, it is the belief that nothing in the world has a real existence and value. Nihilists believe that there are no religious, political, moral, or societal bounds that should be followed. Many people around the globe find comfort and happiness in these intuitions. These nihilism quotes offer insight into what nihilists are and what they believe.
Nihilism is the belief that all virtues are groundless and that nothing can be understood or disseminated. It is associated with pessimism and radical skepticism that criticizes the worldโ€™s existence. A nihilist would have no patriotism and purpose other than a tendency to destroy.

Check out these nihilism quotes to learn more about the implications of nothingness.

Optimistic Nihilism Quotes

Optimistic nihilism can be an incredibly empowering belief. Check out some of the best Optimistic Nihilism Quotes thatโ€™ll make you think more optimistically.

โ€œNobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.โ€

ALBERT CAMUS

โ€œThere is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.โ€

EMILE COIREN

โ€œNihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.โ€

ALBERT CAMUS

โ€œNihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist.โ€

CAROL A.DINGLE

โ€œThere must be somebody there, because somebody must have said โ€œNobodyโ€.โ€

A.A.MILNE
โ€œNihilism is evidence of lifeโ€ฆ the last weapons of victims choked and manacled beyond all other resistance.โ€

โ€œThe skeptic has no illusions about life, nor a vain belief in the promise of immortality. Since this life here and now is all we can know, our most reasonable option is to live it fully.โ€

PAUL KURTZ

โ€œFamously, thereโ€™s not really anywhere to go after nihilism. Itโ€™s not progressing toward anything, itโ€™s a statement of outrage, however brilliant.โ€

ALAN MOORE

โ€œThere is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.โ€

REBECCA SOLNIT

โ€œWe love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.โ€

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

โ€œSince there is no wrong or right, you just reap what you sow.โ€

PETER MURPHY

Existential Nihilism Quotes

Nihilists are the people who question the existence of this world. Check out the best Existential Nihilism Quotes that will also make you question everything.

โ€œNihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery, and domination of peoples and nature.โ€

โ€œNihilism is an honest evaluation of what a universe without God would look like.โ€

JON MORRISON

โ€œNihilism is but the other side of conventionalism; its creed consists of negations of the current so-called positive values, to which it remains bound.โ€

HANAH ARENDT

โ€œNihilism isโ€ฆ not only the belief that everything deserves to perish; but one actually puts one shoulder to the plow; one destroys.โ€

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

โ€œThe fundamental principle of Nihilism, properly so-called, was absolute individualism.โ€

STEPNIAK

โ€œNihilism was a passionate and powerful reaction, not against political despotism, but against the moral despotism that weighs upon the private and inner life of the individual.โ€

STEPNIAK
โ€œNihilism is not overcome by arguments or analyses; it is tamed by love and care.โ€

โ€œNihilism has no substance. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.โ€

VICTOR HUGO

โ€œNihilism isnโ€™t sustainable as a magic feather. I donโ€™t want to be able to sleep at night because I donโ€™t care about whatโ€™s happening tomorrow.โ€

LIZ HARRIS

โ€œCertainty is not to be had. But as we learn this, we become not more moral but more resigned. We become nihilists.โ€

ALLEN WHEELIS

Nietzsche Nihilism Quotes

Friedrich Nietzsche characterized nihilism as emptying human existence of meaning, purpose, and value. Check out some of the best Nietzsche Nihilism Quotes about nihilism thatโ€™ll make you think about the existence of this world.

โ€œEverything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.โ€

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

โ€œThe surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.โ€

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
โ€œAll good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.โ€

โ€œGod is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we โ€“ we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.โ€

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

โ€œAnd we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.โ€

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

โ€œI teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?โ€

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

โ€œDoing nothing is more expedient than doing something.โ€

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

โ€œThose are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: โ€œAll that is worthlessโ€โ€“and want to create no value themselves.โ€

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
โ€œNihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question โ€œwhyโ€ is lacking. What does nihilism mean?โ€“that the supreme values devalue themselves.โ€

โ€œNihilism, then, is the recognition of the long waste of strength, the agony of the โ€œin vain,โ€ insecurity, the lack of any opportunity to recover and to regain composure.โ€

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

โ€œThat is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the โ€œmeaninglessโ€) eternally!โ€

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

โ€œIf we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.โ€

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Funny Nihilism Quotes

Nihilism means nothingness, but it can also be funny and hilarious. Read these witty and funny Nihilism quotes that will make you laugh.

โ€œEven nihilists put sugar in their coffee to make it more sweet.โ€

MARTY RUBIN

โ€œNihilism is a subject for comedy.โ€

MARTY RUBIN
โ€œNihilism, thereโ€™s really nothing to it.โ€

โ€œSomethingism is better than nihilism.โ€

ANTHONY MARAIS

โ€œI am a superhero! I am a Nihilist! My superpowers include logical detachment, emotional invincibility, and the ability to blend in anywhere. I work alone and am never compromised by romantic entanglements, and I donโ€™t have a costume because who the fuck cares?โ€

LIANNE OELKE

Nihilism itself does not prevent happiness. It just means that nihilists must seek their own happiness. Many nihilists find happiness and can feel every emotion. Nihilists focus on the human conditions, like feelings, love, and happiness, but without the restriction of God, societal rule, and other factors. Itโ€™s true that Nihilists believe in nothing, but that doesnโ€™t necessarily mean that they donโ€™t acknowledge the existence of emotions.

You can also check out Top 60 Religion Quotes To Give You Inner Peace.

Curated by: Piyush Kesarwani

Ajit Pandey graduated in Electronics & Communications Engineering and really loves being a good leader. When he's not doing tech stuff, he enjoys hanging out at swimming pools and going on hiking trails. Ajit writes cool articles and quotes about lots of different things he's into, giving you smart and inspiring ideas. Check out what he says for a cool view on both tech and life's adventures.

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