Virginia Woolf Quotes

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

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

The fact we exist merely means we exist. That's all it means.

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

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

Existence is not a mystery unless you think it has a meaning.

In the cosmology that's behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or do anything.

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.

It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning

I like to remind myself that everything is meaningless.

In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.

Teachings that defy reason defy reality; what defies reality defies life. Defying life is embracing death.

For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable.

Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.

The meaning of life is life.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

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

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it is a cynical, individualistic school of thought that posits the self and personal choice as the measure of life's entire meaning.

Being is the great explainer.

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever.

One joins the movement in a valueless world, Choosing it, till both hurler and the hurled, One moves as well, always toward, toward.