Nothingness Quotes

350 quotes by 224 authors

Know how to play the card of contempt. It is the most politic kind of revenge. For there are many of whom we should have… — Baltasar Gracian
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which… — Mahatma Gandhi
God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was… — Bede Griffiths
Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done. — Sam Ewing
I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less… — Frances Farmer
People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness. — E. M. Forster
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. — Elbert Hubbard
Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting… — Hugh Jackman
The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company. — Pope John XXIII
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. — John Keats
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… — Robert Lanza
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. — Susan Orlean
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our… — Cesare Pavese
If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night, and you do that for a week, you are getting… — Robert M. Pirsig
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness. — Jerry Saltz
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. — Gertrude Stein
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. — John Updike
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. — Paul Valery
Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up. — Mae West
Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." ...On the other hand, he SAID it. — Art Spiegelman

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