Tao Lin Quotes

If 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.

Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.

There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent.

To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningless universe... it just doesn't happen any more. In even the most indie of the indie films, everything has to come to some kind of neat conclusion.

Anything goes and nothing matters.

Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters.

If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.

I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Nothing is important.

The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny each other's existence. We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal.

A nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said.

Everything is honoured, but nothing matters.

I think it’s just as likely that someone could say that this place, right here, is heaven, hell and earth all at the same time. And we still wouldn’t know what to do differently. Everyone just muddles through, trying not to make too many mistakes.

It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything.

There is not wrong, there is no right, and I will sleep very well tonight.

It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had ever been to think so.

One cannot be a part-time nihilist.

I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time

I like to remind myself that everything is meaningless.