This was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This…

The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The stars, almost…

— Yasunari Kawabata

Zero is powerful because it is infinity’s twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and yang. They are equally paradoxical and troubling. The biggest…

— Charles Seife

I've heard it said that grace is God reaching God's hands into the world. And the Bible tells us that we are part of…

— Cathleen Falsani

To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope…

— Athol Fugard

In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness.

— Miyamoto Musashi

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…

— Tracey Emin

The Void is both the source of nothingness and, at the very same time, the source of everythingness. In short, the void is the…

— Chuck Hillig

Life demands sacrifice and difficult decisions from us at every moment. Living does not mean passing through a void of nothingness but rather through…

— Anonymous

And we, inhabitants of the great coral of the Cosmos, believe the atom (which still we cannot see) to be full matter, whereas, it…

— Umberto Eco

“I was introduced to the void by the rebuffed nothingness. Reddedilmiş hiçlik tarafından boşlukla tanıştırıldım.”

— Yves Klein

It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out onto a…

— Neil Gaiman

This is not a place, after all. It is BETWEEN places. This is NOWHERE. A brief thought: I could stay here, abandon my quest,…

— Neil Gaiman

You know,” he said, “I wish you could see this cave.” “What’s it like?” He paused. “It’s...beautiful, really.” “Tell me.” And so Po described…

— Kristin Cashore

“The worst fear of the race yes, the world suddenly transformed into a senseless nightmare, horrible dissolution of things. Nothing compares, even oblivion is…

— Thomas Ligotti

Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on…

— Sylvia Plath