Nothingness Quotes · Page 8

Old Zen is the way of nothingness, the way of having a good time.

— Frederick Lenz

“And I keep wandering in search of a nothingness...”

— Avijeet Das

We are made up of nothing. There is no self. We are whatever we decide we are.

— Frederick Lenz

One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke.

— Rajneesh

“Kind of just existed from day to day, on weird plateau of feeling nothingness.”

— Cat Clarke

Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness

— Oswald Spengler

“And so, out of the nothingness that was not God, He created us.”

— Dom Eugene Boylan

“Tell yourself this, every day, I am nothing in front of this universe.”

— Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma

It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and…

— Robert M. Pirsig

I've never been shot, but this probably what it feels like, that second of nothingness right before the pain catches up to…

— Jonathan Tropper

“For whom, for what, was that bird singing? No mate, no rival was watching it. What made it sit at the edge…

— George Orwell

This was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This was what lay beneath the thinly painted scrim of reality.

— Neil Gaiman

--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

— John Keats

I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the…

— Abraham Verghese

Of the wide world I stand alone, and think till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

— John Keats

To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Wishing to grab the life with nothingness wanting to erase the sigh of tiredness forgetting myself completely from my being why do…

— Suman Pokhrel

“The world she was walking through was a pale nothingness, like a blank sheet of paper or an enormous, empty white room.…

— Neil Gaiman

This is why Caliban was a punishment. I realize it now - it's a beautiful, perfect world of nothingness. No connection, no…

— Jackson Pearce

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

For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness,…

— John Donne

There is no ground for supposing that matter and energy existed before [the Big Bang] and were suddenly galvanized into action. For…

— E. T. Whittaker

I go into the locker room and find a corner and just sit there. I try to achieve a peaceful state of…

— Jane Blalock

“The emptiness is so intense, that anything which enters it leaves a trace, something of it remains in space: in the silence,…

— Marie Darrieussecq

“I know, then, that after I die other bodies, other eyeings, will be born. But this is really the same thing as…

— Alan Wilson Watts

“All I mean is that a board of directors is one or two ambitious men--and a lot of ballast. I mean that…

— Ayn Rand

“What happens to the drop of wine That you pour into the sea? Does it remain itself, unchanged? It is as if…

— Jacopone Da Todi

“4 December. To die would mean nothing else than to surrender a nothing to the nothing, but that would be impossible to…

— Franz Kafka

That is, you can have nothingness, absolute nothingness for maybe a tiny fraction of a second, if a second can be defined…

— Brian Greene

Perhaps - and this goes for the Kyoto School too - one of these insights is that nothingness and unknowing don't have…

— George Pattison

For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point…

— Blaise Pascal

“I've decided that has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image…

— Alan Lightman

All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.

— George Bernard Shaw

“History is the nothing people write about a nothing.”

— William Golding

Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is better to have a little than nothing.

— Publilius Syrus

I love just being in the sphere of nothingness looking inwards.

— Morten Harket

In nothingness, there is everything, energy. The ending is a beginning.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.

— May Sarton

Some types of nothing are more fun than other types of nothing.

— Frederick Lenz