Nothingness Quotes - page 6

I have tried very hard to find meaning in what I do, but I have found instead a vast and limitless nothingness. I tried to embrace the nothingness, but it slipped through my grasp, and now there is nothing where the nothingness was. This may sound meaningful, but it isn't. (John S. Hall)
Take a good look at this world, how riddled it is with huge, gaping holes, how full of Nothingness, the Nothingness that fills the bottomless void between the stars, how everything about us has become lined with it, how it darkly lurks behind each shred of matter. This is your work, envious one! And I hardly think the future generations will bless you for it... View quote
Stanisław Lem
Nothingness is capacity, and night the opportunity of light. View quote
Coventry Patmore
my youth, one time, that time I knew even through the nothingness, it was a celebration of something not to do but only know. View quote
Charles Bukowski
I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. View quote
Charles Bukowski
This passage from nothingness to real being, this quitting of oneself is a birth accompanied by pain, for by it natural love is excluded. All grief except grief for sin comes from love of the world. In God is neither sorrow, nor grief, nor trouble. Wouldst thou be free from all grief and trouble, abide and walk in God, and to God alone. As long as love of the creature is in us, pain cannot cease. View quote
Meister Eckhart
--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink. View quote
John Keats
The bliss of murder! The relief, the soaring ecstasy from the shedding of another's blood! Wese, old nightbird, friend, alehouse crony, you are oozing away into the dark earth below the street. Why aren't you simply a bladder of blood so that I could stamp on you and make you vanish into nothingness? Not all we want comes true, not all the dreams that blossomed have borne fruit, your solid remains lie here, already indifferent to every kick. What's the good of the dumb question you are asking? View quote
Franz Kafka
If the pages of this book contain some successful verse, the reader must excuse me the discourtesy of having usurped it first. Our nothingness differs little; it is a trivial and chance circumstance that you should be the reader of these exercises and I their author. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
That every will must consider every other will its equal - would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution and destruction of man, an attempt to assassinate the future of man, a sign of weariness, a secret path to nothingness. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Yes, Lord, you are innocence itself: how could you conceive of Nothingness, you who are plenitude? Your gaze is light and transforms all into light: how could you know the half-light in my heart? View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
No one any longer knows who will live in this steel-hard casing and whether entirely new prophets or a mighty rebirth of ancient ideas and ideals will stand at the end of this prodigious development. Or, however, if neither, whether a mechanized ossification, embellished with a sort of rigidly compelled sense of self-importance, will arise. Then, indeed, if ossification appears, the saying might be true for the "last humans” in this long civilizational development:narrow specialists without mind, pleasure-seekers without heart; in its conceit, this nothingness imagines it has climbed to a level of humanity never before attained. View quote
Max Weber
Time was a flickering gray fire constantly consuming all things, so that what appeared to be motion was actually the oxidation and reduction of possibilities, the collapse of potential matter from grace to nothingness. View quote
Michael Swanwick
Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness. View quote
Mark Strand
I'm happy to be reminded that an ordinary day full of nothing but nothingness can make you feel like you've won the lottery. View quote
Susan Orlean
Even a minute of dying is better than an eternity of nothingness. View quote
Darren Shan
I will endure until the stars wink out & the very last trace of heat ebbs from the cosmos & there is nothing but eternal icy nothingness. View quote
James Lovegrove
That was the problem with having walls so hard and high and unscalable.... When they came down, they crumbled completely, shattering into nothingness. View quote
L.J. Smith
The Indian religious traditions... accepted the concept of non-being on an equal footing with that of being. Like many other Eastern religions, the Indian culture regarded Nothing as a state from which one might have come and to which one might return.. Where Western religious traditions sought to flee from nothingness... a state of non-being was something to be actively sought by Buddhist and Hindus in order to achieve Nirvana: oneness with the Cosmos. (John D. Barrow)
Millions of shadows walking into nothingness. View quote
Franco Battiato
To be an ignorant man, to posses nothing but a fragile word, to find oneself as if relying upon darkness and nothingness: that is the position from which one must be constantly setting out. View quote
Jean Starobinski
I'm not afraid because I can only imagine nothingness as rather quiet. View quote
Sten Nadolny
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. View quote
Robert Lanza