Nothingness Quotes · Page 11

Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.

— Heinz Pagels

“So basically our universe is a lot of energy or light that is vibrating from a lot of nothingness creating our combined…

— Lee Vickers

My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?

— Arthur Rimbaud

Moment after moment everything comes out of nothingness. This is the true joy of life.

— Shunryu Suzuki

What is next to ecstasy? Pain. What is next to pain? Nothingness. What is next to nothingness? Hell.

— Umera Ahmed

“Nothing is everything. In order to grow strong, you must first sink your roots deep into nothingness. Learn to face your loneliest…

— Pinchas Perry

We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust... The stars made a circle, and in the middle, we dance.

— Rumi

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

— Athol Fugard

What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true? I could think of nothing. And, slowly, it was…

— Richard Wright

Pot put me in a position where I could walk far away from my playing and hear it in the second person.…

— John Frusciante

This swallowing up of life in nothingness, this obliteration of life by nothingness is what the emotion of malice ultimately desires. The…

— John Cowper Powys

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…

— Stanislaw Lem

But I just don't think it's an abyss of nothingness [after death] and that we fall off and that our journey stops.…

— Halle Berry

Anxiety is not fear, being afraid of this or that definite object, but the uncanny feeling of being afraid of nothing at…

— William Barrett

“Love has the power to create an inviting space in the lives of people. But if daily routine kills dreamy or passionate…

— Erik Pevernagie

I venture that those of us who are most serene when faced with the possibility of nothingness are the ones who've reached…

— Francine du Plessix Gray

“I was just thoughts, just air. There was nothingness all around me. Was this what it was like to be dead? When…

— Melissa Kantor

From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure. If he be an imaginative boy a…

— Sherwood Anderson

I humbly believe our life is to learn our nothingness and His being everything; when we agree with Him that we are…

— Charles George Gordon

“I am nothing--nothing--nothing. She was clinging to that, she found, as to a sort of anchor, because it kept her from having…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“They understand death, they stand there in the church under the skies that have a beginningless past and go into the never-ending…

— Jack Kerouac

My whole effort is to help you to disappear. My whole effort is to help you to be so empty: anatta -…

— Rajneesh

“I knew that we counted little in comparison with the universe, I knew that we were nothing; but to be so immeasurably…

— Erich Fromm

As I stood alone and forsaken, and the power of the sea and the battle of the elements reminded me of my…

— Anonymous

“Drama of life may get gripping, intense or interesting but eventually it's still a drama.”

— Aditya Ajmera

Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.

— Anonymous

I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can’t go any further.

— Harry Callahan

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

— Tadao Ando

Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“I prefer a defeat that knows the beauty of flowers to a victory in the desert, full of blindness in the soul,…

— Fernando Pessoa

There is always something sad about the trams, may be because they are like our lives: They appear from nothingness and disappear…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

— Isaac Asimov

You're a part of me. I'm a part of you and we are all a part of this great nothingness.

— Frederick Lenz

This day's nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.

— Adam Zagajewski

Fear of nothingness is fear of a certain physicality, a physicality whose phenomena I cannot predictably demarcate from its reality in advance.

— Timothy Morton

I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.

— Daniel Keyes

Error tills its own barren soil and buries itself in the ground, since ground and dust stand for nothingness.

— Mary Baker Eddy

“If it is nothingness, shouldn't we make the most of our time while we're alive in all the somethingness?”

— Richard Uhlig

Hip-hop is a beautiful culture. It's inspirational, because it's a culture of survivors. You can create beauty out of nothingness.

— Mos Def

“Nothing, brother. Everything's about nothing. You know that, but you prefer to pretend otherwise. We both do.”

— William T. Vollmann