Nothingness Quotes
350 quotes by 224 authors
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Jesus.. says, 'Let go of your complaints, forgive those who loved you poorly, step over your feelings of being rejected, and have the courage to…
— Henri Nouwen
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There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from…
— Thomas Mann
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What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part…
— Alan Watts
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When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charactery, Hold like…
— John Keats
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But you need to have lived years in nothingness to understand how a person can suddenly become frightened by a possibility.
— David Foenkinos
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If a tree fell in the forest, and you were the only one there to hear it; if its fall to the ground didn’t make…
— Andrea Gibson
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Darkness does not age; nothing is always nothing
— Dejan Stojanovic
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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
— Arthur Rimbaud
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
— Arthur Rimbaud
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I push against the tree and run away, stumbling, the unreal night playing with me, gravity pulling from below, behind, above, making me fall. And…
— Mohsin Hamid
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I hate you!†I screamed at Fang. Tucking my wings in, I aimed downward, diving toward the ground at more than two hundred miles an…
— James Patterson
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Religion used to be the opium of the people. To those suffering humiliation, pain, illness, and serfdom, religion promised the reward of an after life.…
— Czeslaw Milosz
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I'm gone, lost, floating away into nothingness like I am in my dream, but this time it's a good feeling - like soaring, like being…
— Lauren Oliver
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How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a…
— Cormac McCarthy
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My dear, Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and…
— Charles Bukowski
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I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.
— Daniel Keyes
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I lean over you, your equal, offering you a mirror for your perfect nothingness, for your shadows which are neither light nor absence of light,…
— Maurice Blanchot
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Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.
— Donna Tartt
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How small life is here and how big nothingness. The sky, tired of light, has given everything to the snow. The two trees bow their…
— Robert Walser
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If such a thing called happiness exists in this world, it should be something which resembles the limitless nothingness. Nihility is having nothing and having…
— Tite Kubo
Who Wrote These Nothingness Quotes
224 authors contributed a total of 350 Nothingness Quotes, led by these top contributors: