Nothingness Quotes

350 quotes by 224 authors

Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives… — Thomas Merton
Everest silences you...when you come down, nothing seems worth saying, nothing at all. You find the nothingness wrapping you up, like a sound. Non-being. You… — Salman Rushdie
To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life. — Kurt Vonnegut
--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink. — John Keats
In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know… — Mother Teresa
Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun. Stars and sun, a few bright grains, went spiraling round for terror,… — D. H. Lawrence
Don't drop him," said Peter's mother to his father. "Don't you dare drop him." She was laughing. "I will not," said his father. "I could… — Kate DiCamillo
I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around… — Abraham Verghese
I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our relationship… — John Fowles
Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home? — Emile M. Cioran
Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a… — Virginia Woolf
It is this nothingness (in solitude) that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful that everything in me wants to run… — Henri Nouwen
Maybe nothingness is to be without your presence, without you moving, slicing the noon like a blue flower, without you walking later through the fog… — Pablo Neruda
Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life is writing. — Helene Cixous
Today I might lose both of them. I try to imagine a world where both Gale's and Peeta's voices have ceased. Hands stilled. Eyes unblinking.… — Suzanne Collins
We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars. — Henry Miller
I wish I could close my eyes and be blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff drifting off on… — Lauren Oliver
The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed… — Emile M. Cioran
Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and… — D. H. Lawrence
My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I thinkâ€¦ and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment… — Jean-Paul Sartre

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