“Let me sleep," he said, and shut the door; it clicked in her face and she felt animal terror - this was… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
When you unite the nothingness of your mind with the nothingness of the Frisbee, then the Frisbee is not a Frisbee, and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to live an… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“But I don't want to write my own fiction,' Cath said, as emphatically as she could. 'I don't want to write my… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
I know there's no heaven. I know it all turns to nothingness. But I fear there will be some remnant of me… — Drew Magary Copy Share Image
The writer doesn’t write for the reader. He doesn’t write for himself, either. He writes to serve…something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
You are fighting against nothingness all the time by creating a series of shields that you call personality, life history, feelings, ideas,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Without will there is no concept and no world. Before us, certainly, nothing remains. But what resists this transition into annihilation, our… — Schopenhauer Arthur Copy Share Image
One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke. Don't get attached to anything. This attachment… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“We are nothing but die cut shapes flowing in the wind waiting to fall.” — Joan Ambu Copy Share Image
When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
And somewhat as in blind night, on a mild sea, a sailor may be made aware of an iceberg, fanged and mortal,… — James Agee Copy Share Image
This day's nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets. — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell said, 'Electricity is not a thing like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave.' And it's… — Mary Jo Bang Copy Share Image
Fear of nothingness is fear of a certain physicality, a physicality whose phenomena I cannot predictably demarcate from its reality in advance. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, now I realize what we all are . If… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Perhaps - and this goes for the Kyoto School too - one of these insights is that nothingness and unknowing don't have… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of all strength, but it makes you see the nothingness of… — Leon Bloy Copy Share Image
Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its… — Tim Lott Copy Share Image