Nothingness Quotes

350 quotes by 224 authors

What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a… — Joyce Carol Oates
I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe the nothingness and… — Jack Kerouac
From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure. If he be an imaginative boy a door is torn… — Sherwood Anderson
We were green: we ripened and grew golden. The Sea terrified us: we learned how to drown. Squat and earthbound, we unfolded huge wings. We… — Unknown Author
Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joys, But the… — John Clare
New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there,… — Henry Miller
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. — Blaise Pascal
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 of… — Athol Fugard
A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice,… — Czeslaw Milosz
She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your… — Fay Weldon
Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities. — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was… — Charles Bukowski
They crashed the front door and grabbed at a woman, though she was not running, she was not trying to escape. She was only standing,… — Ray Bradbury
There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessnessâ€“like how a person alone for too long cannot feel comfortable… — Tao Lin
Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate. — Miguel de Unamuno
The sand looked so beautiful then, so many little individual grains in the light of the night, giving the watcher the childhood feeling of infinite… — Ayi Kwei Armah
As I stood alone and forsaken, and the power of the sea and the battle of the elements reminded me of my own nothingness, and… — Soren Kierkegaard
This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle the narration of… — Michel Houellebecq
Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting their food. Gone… — Margaret George

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