History Quotes / StrawNihilist

->''"Gods don't exist, and Buddhas don't either. Yet these people lived for decades without realizing it. Once they die, it's all just gonna return to nothing. They won't feel anything. And then they rot into the ground. As long as you live on this Earth, that's your eternal fate. They just can't accept that simple fact. It must be so hard being stupid. I want to make these sorrowful people happy. I want to help them. That's the reason I was born, after all."''
-->-- '''Doma''', ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba''

->'''Deadpool:''' I am life itself.\\
'''Thanos:''' Then you are ''everything'' I despise.
-->-- ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} vs. [[Characters/MarvelComicsThanos Thanos]]''

->''"Oh, I didn't like the killing, Wolverine. I '''loved''' the killing. [[AtLeastIAdmitIt And unlike you, I was always smart enough to know what I really was.]] We're monsters, buddy. Plain and simple. I don't dress it up with fancy names like '{{mutant|s}}' or '[[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual post-human]]'; men were born crueler than apes and we were born crueler than men. It's just the natural order of things. Charles Xavier is like a vegetarian who doesn't want to admit what his eye teeth are for. The Brotherhood are too full of themselves to admit that we're everything they hate about humankind and a little more besides."''
-->-- '''Sabertooth''', ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen''

->''"A lion doesn't pass judgement on a gazelle. Cancer doesn't pass judgement on a brain. I've been saying this all along. [[WhatIsEvil Evil doesn't exist.]] There are only actions. We got to the same place -- the top of the food chain -- just on different paths. Mine was more fun."''
-->--- '''[[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]]''', ''Franchise/{{Batman}}''/''Radio/TheShadow''

->''"Man needs no divine assistance. He makes himself! I chose to exterminate the zombies. I chose to kill. But I hurt myself, too -- to remind me that even I am only human!"''
-->-- '''Victor Zsasz''', ''Franchise/{{Batman}}: Shadow of the Bat''

-->-- ''"Black Dahlia''", ''VideoGame/SkullGirls''

-->-- ''"Black Dahlia''", ''VideoGame/Skullgirls''

-->-- '''Wishverse Buffy''', ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''

-->-- '''Lucy Saxon''', ''Series/DoctorWho''

->''"Oh, I didn't like the killing, Wolverine. I '''loved''' the killing. [[AtLeastIAdmitIt And unlike you, I was always smart enough to know what I really was]]. We're monsters, buddy. Plain and simple. I don't dress it up with fancy names like '{{mutant|s}}' or '[[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual post-human]]'; men were born crueler than apes and we were born crueler than men. It's just the natural order of things. Charles Xavier is like a vegetarian who doesn't want to admit what his eye teeth are for. The Brotherhood are too full of themselves to admit that we're everything they hate about humankind and a little more besides."''

->''"A lion doesn't pass judgement on a gazelle. Cancer doesn't pass judgement on a brain. I've been saying this all along. Evil doesn't exist. There are only actions. We got to the same place -- the top of the food chain -- just on different paths. Mine was more fun."''

->''"So naïve to the ways of the world, so full of optimism and hope. I, however, have seen the world for how it truly is. Despair is the only truth in this world of lies and hypocrisy. This world is not worth the dirt we walk upon. Unless it is destroyed and remade properly, it will remain that way, a diseased mire, and everyone –- humans, witches, and other creatures alike –- shall continue to dance like court jesters to its incomprehensible whims. If you live long enough, you shall see it sooner or later, even if ''[[HopeCrusher I]]'' must be the one to teach you that."''

-->-- '''Walter''', ''Film/TheBigLebowski''

->''"What if I don't ''want'' the Pattern to continue? We live the same lives! Over and over and over. We make the same mistakes. Kingdoms do the same ''stupid'' things. Rulers fail their people time and time again. Men continue to hurt and hate and die and kill. What if I think it's all meaningless? What if I don't ''want'' it to keep turning? We live our lives by the blood of others! And those others become forgotten. What ''good'' is it if everything we know will fade? Great deeds or great tragedies, neither means anything! They will become legends, and then those legends will be forgotten, then it will start all over again! [[VillainHasAPoint What if he is right]]? What if it's better for this all to end?"''

-->-- '''Satan''', ''Literature/TheMysteriousStranger''

-->-- '''Terumi Yuuki''', ''Franchise/BlazBlue''

->'''Galatea:''' Oh no! Enough!! I'll grudgingly tolerate meaningless talk of 'abstract morality' from my miseducated sibling, but not from you chimps! Even my talk of 'destiny' is an illusion! I know that! For all of life is a meaningless farce, and I will wrest from it all the pleasure and power I can while I live! Molly was born in a freak accident! [[CloningBlues And I'm a redundant copy of that]]! My very existence proves the randomness of everything!!\\

-->-- '''Terumi Yuuki''', ''VideoGame/BlazBlue''

->''"I was a boy. I was lying in the shadow of the berry bush taking the sims. One of the berries, just one, fell right upon my eye. Just. There. A hungry bird spied the berry. It was a crow, I believe. And it pecked for the berry, [[EyeScream but got my eye as well]]. Senseless! YES! I had done nothing to earn such a fate, and ever since, I've known that the world made no sense, and had acted accordingly."''

-->-- '''Doma''', ''Manga/DemonSlayer''

-->-- '''Merlina''', ''[[VideoGame/SonicStorybookSeries Sonic and the Black Knight]]''

->''"When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was, I went crazy as a coot! I admit it! Why can't you? I mean, you're not unintelligent! You must see the reality of the situation. Do you know how many times we've come close to World War III over a flock of geese on a computer screen? Do you know what triggered the last world war? An argument over how many telegraph poles Germany owed its war debt creditors! Telegraph poles! Ha ha ha ha ha! It's all a joke! Everything anybody ever valued or struggled for... it's all a monstrous, demented gag!"''

->''"There's nothing in this world to believe in. There is no need to believe."''

-> ''"Good luck having a meaningless existence, with only one thing in the world that will ever make you feel better: [[ADateWithRosiePalms your hand]]."''

->''"This is what happens when you dummies try to think! WE'RE ALL JUST TRASH WAITING TO BE THROWN AWAY! THAT'S ALL A TOY IS!"''

-->-- '''Vicious''', ''Anime/CowboyBebop''

-> ''"There is no purpose. There is no value. There is no point. Life is ridiculous. The universe is one big joke and the joke is on us. [[TheHedonist The best we can hope for is entertainment]]. We'll get along as long as you provide amusement - fighting our wars for us, fixing our worlds, looking for meaning where there is none, and groveling in the dirt to fetch us plants. So keep it up! Just remember that we're laughing all the time."''

->'''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}:''' I am life itself.\\
'''[[Characters/MarvelComicsThanos Thanos]]:''' Then you are ''everything'' I despise.
-->-- ''Deadpool vs. Thanos''

'''Danny:''' You say it as if it were terrible. Believe me, it isn't. You've been in love before -- it didn't last, it never does. [[WorldOfSilence Love, desire, ambition, faith... without them, life's so simple, believe me]].

'''Jadis:''' '''Nothing. Absolutely nothing.'''

->''"[[UsefulNotes/{{Solipsism}} Life itself is only a vision. A dream]]. Nothing exists, save empty space and you. And you... are but a thought."''
-->-- '''Literature/TheMysteriousStranger''', ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfMarkTwain''

->Believe in nothing. There is no purpose in birth, no salvation of the soul in life, no reward after death. Abandon hope and you shall become free, and with freedom acquire emptiness.
-->--''[[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Necronomicon]]: The Wanderings of Alhazred'', by Donald Tyson