D. H. Lawrence Quotes

Everything means nothing that is the only truth.

Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally!

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.

An intimate core of my being recognizes that there is nothing in me that can go on: there is no spark; there is no infestation of vaporous miasma that has the capacity to continue, and there is nothing in me that wishes to continue. This moment is, for me, all that there is, and I'm willing to accept it. I'm a worm; I have no soul.

If I was to say I had a life, that would be a lie.

So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.

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.

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

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

Our conviction that the world is meaningless is due in part to the fact (discussed in a later paragraph) that the philosophy of meaningless lends itself very effectively to furthering the ends of political and erotic passion; in part to a genuine intellectual error - the error of identifying the world of science, a world from which all meaning has deliberately been excluded, with ultimate reality.

I think it's my job or the artist's job, to try and find some solution or some reason to accept things. But given the grimmest reality, I feel the grimmest facts are the real facts, the true facts: that you're born, you die, you suffer, it's to no purpose, and you're gone forever, ever, ever, and that's it.

To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.

According to Beckett's or Kafka's law, there is immobility beyond movement: beyond standing up, there is sitting down, and beyond sitting down, lying down, beyond which one finally dissipates.

I admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement.

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

But whate'er I am, nor I nor any man that but man is, With nothing shall be pleased 'til he be eased With being 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.

The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

Nihilism is best done by professionals.

Nothingness is the basis of everything.