nihilism quiz

Is there anything worth caring about? See how much nihilism shows up in your beliefs, feelings, and sense of purpose.

Answer based on how you’ve been thinking and feeling lately, rather than how you think you should answer.

1. Trying to live up to an ideal seems naive to me.
2. Beauty is just a pleasant sensation with no deeper significance.
3. There's no such thing as truth.
4. Helping someone still matters to me even when it feels small.
5. Myths and fictional stories can teach us meaningful lessons about life.
6. No purpose we give ourselves ultimately matters.
7. Love is nothing more than brain chemistry.
8. I have values that give me a reason to keep going when life gets difficult.
9. It's hard to care about things that used to matter to me.
10. I often come back to the thought that nothing really matters.
11. Justice is just a word people use to dress up their own interests.
12. A better world is worth working toward even if I never get to see it.
13. There are things I care about enough to make sacrifices for.
14. There are things I want to create or preserve because I believe they matter.
15. Some things are worth caring about even if they won't last forever.
16. Values are things people invent to make life seem more meaningful than it is.
17. There's no such thing as morality, just personal preferences.
18. Personal achievements don't mean much because they'll eventually be forgotten.
19. Nothing I do seems to make a real difference.
20. I rarely plan for the future because it feels pointless.
21. I feel stuck because I don't see anything worth working toward.
22. In nature, I feel connected to something beyond myself.
23. Being part of something larger than myself gives my life meaning.
24. Even good moments feel a little empty.
25. A song or work of art can reveal something important about being human.