Stephen Crane Quotes

A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing , but one who does not believe in what exists.

Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

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

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.

I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean?

When you come to think about it, nothing has any meaning, for when there was nobody to think, there was nobody to interpret what happened.

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

Concerning [postmodern] ideas, let us not mince words. The ideas are profoundly dangerous. They subvert our civilization by denying that truth is found by conscientious attempts accurately to portray a reality that exists independently of our perception or attitudes or other attributes such as race, ethnicity, sex or class.

I believe in nothing.

Nothing is proved, all is permitted.

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

I searched all areas of knowledge, and not only did I fail to find anything, but I was convinced that all those who had explored as I did had also come up with nothing. Not only had they found nothing, but they had clearly acknowledged the same thing that had brought me to despair: the only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

But this is the kind of ass-clownery that stems from the fact that all philosophy looks weird when you don't have one.

Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.

I don't see any point in nihilism... just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else.

Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?

All things considered, nothing is beautiful.

Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.

I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.

...So in his own way Guy Clinch confronted the central question of his time, a question you saw being asked and answered everywhere you looked, in every headline and haircut: if, at any moment, nothing might matter, then who said that nothing didn't matter already?

What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?

Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.

Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.