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Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness. -- Isabelle Adjani
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. -- Samuel Beckett
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. -- Paul Valery
Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it. -- Woody Allen
The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world -- Georg Buchner
The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company. -- Pope John XXIII
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. -- John Keats
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness. -- Cesare Pavese
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy. -- Mahatma Gandhi
God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything. -- Bede Griffiths
Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh. -- Hugh Jackman
Nothingness haunts Being. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Nothingness is the basis of everything. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box. -- Adyashanti
Nothingness cannot be defined; the softest thing cannot be snapped. -- Bruce Lee
Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world. -- Georg Buchner
Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence. -- George MacDonald
Nothingness is the basis of everything that exists today. It's the mother of creation & consciousness! -- Vishwanath S J
Nothingness...there in this placewhere nothingness takesbut for the glimmera steadfast shimmerall would be consumed... -- Muse
What is next to ecstasy? Pain. What is next to pain? Nothingness. What is next to nothingness? Hell. -- Umera Ahmed
The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on. -- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
To unmask the deceit of every instinct for preservation is to procure salvation for humanity in nothingness.. ..Nothingness must be defined as the absense of all willing. -- Maurice Blondel
Everything is eternal Nothingness does not exist No thing has ever become nothing And nothing has never become something What is has always been and will always be -- John Frusciante
Nothing, my dear and clever colleague, is not your run-of-the-mill nothing, the result of idleness and inactivity, but dynamic, aggressive Nothingness, that is to say, perfect, unique, ubiquitous, in other words Nonexistence, ultimate and supreme. -- Stanislaw Lem
Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They are nomads going from one rooming house to another, looking for a toilet that functions. -- Elizabeth Hardwick
When all the faces have been rejected and emptiness is left, you have found the original face. Emptiness is the original face. Zero is the ultimate experience. Nothingness - or more accurately NO-THINGNESS - is your original face. -- Rajneesh
Anxiety is not fear, being afraid of this or that definite object, but the uncanny feeling of being afraid of nothing at all. It is precisely Nothingness that makes itself present and felt as the object of our dread. -- William Barrett
Nothing happens until something moves. -- Albert Einstein
Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness... -- Hugh Jackman
It is better to have a little than nothing. -- Publilius Syrus
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. -- Elbert Hubbard
We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust. -- Rumi
In nothingness, there is everything, energy. The ending is a beginning. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence. -- Marcus Aurelius
Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing. -- Aulus Persius Flaccus
Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art. -- Anselm Kiefer
If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness. -- Tadao Ando
I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness. -- Tom Hooper
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. -- Lucretius
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from. -- Lucretius
A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history. -- Lew Wallace
I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism. -- Isaac Asimov
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness. -- Jerry Saltz
People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness. -- E. M. Forster
If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory. -- Miguel de Unamuno
If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night, and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness. -- Robert M. Pirsig
To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with. -- Angela Carter
I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness. -- Frances Farmer
Everything that's created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness. -- Wayne Dyer
It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there. -- Robert M. Pirsig
It's like an athlete. He has a string of hot years, and then he fades into nothingness. The actor doesn't necessarily fade into nothingness. After his hot years, he fades into a different category. -- Ed Asner
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. -- John Keats
When you're 20 or 30, looking ahead, you see these benchmarks for relationships, career, ambition, sexuality, and they went off into infinity. When you get to 50, you look at what's ahead of you, and there's an end. It goes into a nothingness, a void. -- Tracey Emin
When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness. -- Comte de Lautreamont
The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth. -- Ang Lee
When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability. -- Robert Lanza
Can nothingness be so prodigal? -- Sylvia Plath
No sane person fears nothingness. -- Robert A.F. Thurman
Hell is more bearable than nothingness. -- Philip James Bailey
Even the faded flower refutes nothingness. -- Marty Rubin
Happiness is a nothingness without completeness. -- Hlovate
Fashion: a barricade behind which men hide their nothingness. -- Kin Hubbard
Expression is when you are at one with nothingness. -- John Frusciante
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you? -- Arthur Rimbaud
Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness. -- Donna Tartt
Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness. -- Mark Strand
Death is an endless retirement with a pension of nothingness. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
When you go into the space of nothingness, everything becomes known. -- Gautama Buddha
Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness. -- Johannes Tauler
That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The only reality was nothingness, and over it a hypocrisy of words. -- D. H. Lawrence
Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home? -- Emile M. Cioran
Even a minute of dying is better than an eternity of nothingness. -- Darren Shan
All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness. -- George Bernard Shaw
Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness -- Oswald Spengler
Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude. -- May Sarton
The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to. -- Quentin Crisp
I can't understand nothingness. I can't understand it and I can't imagine it. -- Haruki Murakami
Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness. That is within your power. -- Rumi
You will get to your maturity quickly if you stay in the nothingness. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death. -- Czeslaw Milosz
Go back to the abyss! Fall into nothingness that awaits you and your master! -- J. R. R. Tolkien
To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release. -- Emile M. Cioran
Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pretended to see nothing in the old woman's taunts. Very hard to imagine nothingness. -- Georg Ebers
Old Zen is the way of nothingness, the way of having a good time. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness -- Meister Eckhart
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. -- John Updike
One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke. -- Rajneesh
Moment after moment everything comes out of nothingness. This is the true joy of life. -- Shunryu Suzuki
When I die I won't go to heaven or hell; there will just be nothingness. -- Isaac Asimov
The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing. -- Philip James Bailey
Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities. -- John Zerzan
To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness. -- Laozi
Excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness -- Barack Obama
Seeing into one's self-nature is seeing into nothingness. Seeing into nothingness is true seeing & eternal seeing -- Shenhui
We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars. -- Henry Miller
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity. -- Yves Klein
Bullies enjoy dark happiness; these are the blank parts that eventually fill their minds with nothingness. -- Emily Shanks
Devotion is a tool to dissolve yourself into nothingness and become the very hand of the Divine. -- Jaggi Vasudev
With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. -- Mother Teresa
The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
I have only the idea I have made of myself to sustain me on oceans of nothingness -- Henry de Montherlant
Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being. -- Heinz Pagels
My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you? -- Arthur Rimbaud
This day's nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets. -- Adam Zagajewski
Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Among the great things which are to be found among us, the being of nothingness is the greatest. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Error tills its own barren soil and buries itself in the ground, since ground and dust stand for nothingness. -- Mary Baker Eddy
Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness. -- Elizabeth Kim
Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities. -- D.T. Suzuki
This was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This was what lay beneath the thinly painted scrim of reality. -- Neil Gaiman
Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness. -- Andre Maurois

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