Quip of the Day

rules are like sanitary towels: they exist solely to stop pussies getting blood everywhere.

mo' nihilist quotes

"i don't have to step in dog shit to know that it stinks."

- anon

"evolution is to the social sciences as statues are to birds"

- steve jones

"you wonder what i am doing? well, so do i, in truth. days seem to dawn, suns to shine, evenings to follow, and then i sleep. what have i done, what am i doing, what i am going to do, puzzle me and bewilder me. have you ever been a leaf and fallen from your tree in autumn and been really puzzled about it? that's the feeling."

- t. e. lawrence in a letter to his friend eric kennington shortly before his (lawrence's) death.

"when it comes to the real world, christians act just like atheists"
- daniel florien @ planet atheism

"it's always the hours between night and day when revolutions happen. out of the dawn the bird of revolution rises to reach the sun."

- bakunin

"you can't own something unless you can swallow it."

- chinese proverb

nihilist quotes (+interesting links)

my own nihilist research has shown that people often stumble here looking for nihilist quotes and if there is one thing nihilism is famous for it's giving people what they want, well that and being confused with a death wish, so here goes...

"The only thing that trickles down is shit."

Anon

“I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.”
Harriet Tubman

"If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities."

Voltaire

"So you're offended. So fucking what?"

Stephen Fry

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."

Stephen Roberts

"Evolution: a theory so simple and obvious only england's greatest genius could have come up with it."

Ricky Gervais

"Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is they are not even superficial."

Friedrich Nietzsche 

Nihilist Quote from Fundie Shocka!

who'da thunk it? Oliver Cromwell, arch-puritanical, anti-heretical, religiously zealotous to the Nth participal came out with one of the great nihilist quotes of all time, to whit:

"I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken"

and, before you all start (all sodding one of you) just because he talks of christ's nether regions don't make it somehow 'un-nihilist' after all what's the son of god taking craps for anyhoo? 1/3rd of the holiest of holies wiping his arse? i don't think so. makes it more nihilistic if anything.

thanks to GrumpyLion for the quote-rustling.