Everything means nothing that is the only truth.
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.
Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.
Having killed God, the atheist is left with no reason for being, no morality to espouse, no meaning to life, and no hope beyond the grave.
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.
When you can no longer feel the life that you are, you are likely to try to fill up your life with things.
A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
Nothingness haunts Being.
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.
The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.
As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing.
Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.
Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.
To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.
Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters.
Life is an empty dream.
All art is quite useless.
Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason. Desire - meaningless. Intellect is not a cure. Justice is dead.
Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.
