Brent Weeks Quotes

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

The meaningless absurdity of life is the only incontestable knowledge accessible to man.

They pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.

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.

I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.

What's the point of our life? Everything seems absurd until we die, and then it makes sense.

My search not only failed, but I convinced myself that all those who had searched like myself had failed also, and come like me to the despairing conviction that the only absolute knowledge man can possess is this—that life is without a meaning.

Why should anything happen when everything has happened?

Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves.

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

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt.

Robin turned and looked straight into her. "What's life for?" "I don't know." "I don't either. But I don't think it's about winning.

Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.

Life in itself / Is nothing, / An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. / It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, / April / Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

HAMM: We're not beginning to... to... mean something? CLOV: Mean something! You and I, mean something! (Brief laugh.) Ah that's a good one!

If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.

I think life's an irrational obsession.

The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

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

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.

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

The meaning of life is life.

I personally don't live a nihilistic life, I don't have any use for it.