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    Bret Easton Ellis
    “Disappear Here.
    The syringe fills with blood.
    You're a beautiful boy and that's all that matters.
    Wonder if he's for sale.
    People are afraid to merge. To merge.”
    ― Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero
    tags: dark, disturbing, ellis, nihilism
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    Gorgias of Leontini
    “Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.”
    ― Gorgias
    tags: nihilism
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    Bret Easton Ellis
    “Nothing. Nothing makes me happy. I like nothing," I tell her.”
    ― Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero
    tags: nihilism
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    Mitchell Heisman
    “I might be a nihilist except that I don’t believe in anything.”
    ― Mitchell Heisman
    tags: nihilism, philosophy
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness
    tags: existentialism, nihilism
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “freedom only gives you something to be sorry for.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: existentialism, freedom, nihilism
    8 likes

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    Ivan Turgenev
    “Nature's not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.”
    ― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
    tags: nihilism
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    Sarah Kane
    “There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful”
    ― Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis
    tags: asylum, death, drugs, life, meaning, nihilism, psychology, therapy
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Nihilism is…not only the belief that everything deserves to perish; but one actually puts one shoulder to the plough; one destroys.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: action, meaning, nihilism, philosophy, purpose, violence, worth
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    Renzo Novatore
    “Mine is an enthusiastic and dionysian pessimism, like a flame that sets my vital exuberance ablaze, that mocks at any theoretical, scientific or moral prison.”
    ― Renzo Novatore
    tags: anarchism, egoism, nihilism
    19 likes

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    Charles Bukowski
    “Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: death, disneyland, nihilism
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    Renzo Novatore
    “My motto is: walk expropriating and igniting, always leaving behind me howls of moral offenses and smoking trunks of old things.”
    ― Renzo Novatore
    tags: anarchism, egoism, nihilism
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: funny, humor, optimism, pessimism
    713 likes

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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
    474 likes

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    Philip K. Dick
    “If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.”
    ― Philip K. Dick
    tags: humor, irony, optimism, pessimism, schizophrenia, universe
    609 likes

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    Antonio Gramsci
    “I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
    ― Antonio Gramsci, Antonio Gramsci: Prison Letters
    tags: intellect, intelligence, optimism, pessimism, science, will
    834 likes

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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk
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    Robert Lynn Asprin
    “When things are at their blackest, I say to myself, 'Cheer up, things could be worse.' And sure enough, they get worse.”
    ― Robert Asprin, editor
    tags: humor, pessimism
    244 likes

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    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson
    tags: acid, attack, bad-people, calumny, chemical, counterfeit, deception, decievers, demon, devil, fake, fake-friends, fault-finders, food-for-thought, gossip, haters, hatred, hurt, incessant, insanity, negative, negative-people, pessimism, plot, ploy, pretence, pretenders, slander, slanderers, smiles, strategy, swindle, sycophants, toxic-people, trick, troubesome-people, trouble, villain
    388 likes

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    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    “Sorrow spares no one, and scars respect no person.”
    ― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Infamous
    tags: pessimism, respect, sad, scars, sorrow
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    Tamar Myers
    “I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We pessimists have everything to gain, whereas optimists have a fifty-fifty chance of being disappointed.”
    ― Tamar Myers, As the World Churns
    tags: optimism, pessimism
    139 likes

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    Joyce Carol Oates
    “Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.”
    ― Joyce Carol Oates
    tags: best, hope, optimism, pessimism, pragmatism, worst
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    Lisa Kleypas
    “I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.”
    ― Lisa Kleypas, Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor
    tags: pessimism
    124 likes

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    Jules Renard
    “There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last.”
    ― Jules Renard
    tags: pessimism
    75 likes

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    Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
    “If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.”
    ― Bernardin de Saint Pierre, Paul and Virginia by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Fiction, Literary
    tags: death, life, paul-and-virginie, paul-et-virginie, pessimism, pessimistic, punishment, saint-pierre, test
    68 likes

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    Peter Wessel Zapffe
    “Know yourselves- be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.”
    ― Peter Wessel Zapffe, Essays
    tags: discontinuation, existentialism, pessimism
    111 likes

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    Criss Jami
    “Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: empty, full, glass, les, negative, negativity, optimism, perception, pessimism, positivity, righteous, righteous-pessimism
    104 likes

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    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    “I'm beginning to think the only choice anyone has in life is between either a bad choice or a worse one.”
    ― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Infamous
    tags: inspirational, pessimism
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    Peter Weiss
    “We're all free and equal to die like dogs”
    ― Peter Weiss, The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
    24 likes



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