Nihilsm Quotes

“The Farmer’s Almanac promised a cold winter. The coldest in decades. Andrew grinned, unaware of how hideously ugly it made him. Let the winter be record breaking. The year would be marked in infamy and not for the weather alone. He could imagine the headlines, mentioning it as the winter of death, as his spree was just beginning. It would put the town on the map.”
― Jaime Allison Parker, Justice of the Fox

“Our brains were shaped by nature over millions of years. Everything in our DNA was made for that world: hunting, gathering, resting, belonging to a tribe. The drive was simple: find food find shelter stay safe.. The system we live in now with its money, status, schedules and constant comparison is not part of nature. It's something we built. Our DNA has no instructions for it. Once our basic needs were met the drive to survive didn't switch off. It stayed alive. Attached itself to things it was never built for: wealth, approval, image, position. The brain treats them as survival though nothing in our DNA understands them. In nature every search ended: we hunted, we ate, we rested. In this system the search never. Nothing ever says 'enough.' The drive stays active with nowhere to go. The mind fills the gap with a story about who we are what we lack and what we must become. That story constructs the self, which's nothing more than an accumulation of past experience. From it an emerges and its only job is to survive in a system our DNA never prepared it for.. Everything this ego defends the status, the image, the possessions the roles was made up by us. It is fragile. In natures terms meaningless.. We treat it as a matter of survival and the clash, between that story and reality is what we feel as suffering. We are the cause of our own suffering: not because we are flawed but because we give importance to what we invented.”
― Dain Sica

“Many people don’t know that God has abandoned us. It is a well established fact that existence is a meaningless pit of despair and suffering. Alleviated only by the occasional glimpse of what we are hardwired to perceive as happiness. Which in and of itself is merely a mechanism to leave us with an acute sense of ennui, When we realize that all satisfaction is fleeting and contentment with life is an illusion. What many don’t realize is that we are built this way not because God hates us, but because he hasn’t bothered fixing reality, as he has better things to do.”
― Gwydion RMF Weber