Michael Moorcock Quotes

Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.

Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.

Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer.

We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.

Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.

Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves.

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.

If sub specie aeternitatis [from eternity's point of view] there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can approach our absurd lives with irony instead of heroism or despair.

Nothing matters. Nothing matters.

I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.

Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

Everything means nothing to me

When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we're nothing.

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

HAMM: We're not beginning to... to... mean something? CLOV: Mean something! You and I, mean something! (Brief laugh.) Ah that's a good one!

One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.