Nothingness Quotes

350 quotes by 224 authors

We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died longe ago.Even so, a faint… — Haruki Murakami
And knowing that the only alternative to your grief is the nothingness thatâ€™s fast approaching, you try to embrace your own sorrow, to be open… — Ron Currie Jr.
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness.… — Virginia Woolf
Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.… — Marquis de Sade
To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness,… — Eric Hoffer
He: Whatâ€™s the matter with you? Me: Nothing. Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly numbing my soul. Caught by nothing, saying nothing, nothingness… — Jeanette Winterson
A stray fact: insects are not drawn to candle flames, they are drawn to the light on the far side of the flame, they go… — Michael Cunningham
Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us as a dream,… — Fernando Pessoa
But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abyss of nothingness and the intense thirst that came… — Haruki Murakami
I've never been shot, but this probably what it feels like, that second of nothingness right before the pain catches up to the bullet. — Jonathan Tropper
The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I feel myself dissolving, vanishing into nothingness, for if there is no one in the world who cares for you, do you really exist at… — Cassandra Clare
As if to build a fence around the fatal emptiness inside her, she had to create a sunny person that she became. But if you… — Haruki Murakami
Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do… — Roger Zelazny
As a sunbeam perishes when cut off from the sun, so man apart from God would pass back into the void of nothingness from which… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
We wait. We are bored. (He throws up his hand.) No, don't protest, we are bored to death, there's no denying it. Good. A diversion… — Samuel Beckett
Hip-hop is a beautiful culture. It's inspirational, because it's a culture of survivors. You can create beauty out of nothingness. — Mos Def
All Iâ€™ve ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my existence. The only thing Iâ€™ve ever really cared about… — Fernando Pessoa
Vanish. Pass into nothingness: the Keats line that frightened her. Fade as the blue nights fade, go as the brightness goes. Go back into the… — Joan Didion

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