Is it possible to fail... ...at life?

Are their any absolute values or standards by which we can judge another person's life? ...as good? ...as bad? ...as moral? ...as immoral? Or is every such measure of a person relativistic... i.e. people such as Stalin were not really bad or immoral in any real or absolute sense... they were just the kind of people we we'd rather not have the company of... people who we don't 'like' in a subjective sense, and nothing more (or less)? Are Nietzsche's century-old nihilistic prophesies being fulfilled? He predicted,

What I relate is the history of the next two centuries. I describe what is coming, what can no longer come differently: the advent of nihilism... For some time now our whole European culture has been moving as toward a catastrophe, with a tortured tension that is growing from decade to decade: restlessly, violently, headlong, like a river that wants to reach the end... (Will to Power)

Helmut Thielicke states the damning conclusion, the cliff over which such a river rushes: "Nihilism literally has only one truth to declare, namely, that ultimately Nothingness prevails and the world is meaningless" (Nihilism: Its Origin and Nature with a Christian Answer, 1969). Personally, I find the paradoxical reply of a local philosopher both challenging and inspirational:

"To fail at failure is to win." --C.D.

Let's return to our outstanding question, "What do we owe others?" Such a pessimistic philosophy as nihilism would seem to answer, "We don't owe others anything... we don't owe them sh*t!" Note that such an apathetic perspective/philosophy doesn't hold anyone accountable for anything! It seems to leave us with the at-once-scary and yet-deceptively-comfortable conclusion that one cannot fail at life... nor can one really succeed at anything, either. Is that what you believe? Or are we striving for something truly great in life? Something absolutely worth it? What is that thing, if it is even a thing at all?