Nothingness Quotes

350 quotes by 224 authors

Nothingness haunts Being. — Jean-Paul Sartre
And somewhat as in blind night, on a mild sea, a sailor may be made aware of an iceberg, fanged and mortal, bearing invisibly near,… — James Agee
Not a single star will be left in the night. The night will not be left. I will die and, with me, the weight of… — Jorge Luis Borges
The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre… — Guy Davenport
This was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This was what lay beneath the thinly painted scrim of reality. — Neil Gaiman
Your god must once have stood at a dawn of infinite possibilities, and this is what he's made of it. You tell me that I… — Cormac McCarthy
Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its way quite unique.… — Unknown Author
I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are… — Wernher von Braun
The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost of unending effort… — W. Somerset Maugham
Saints are described as fearing the name of God; they are reverent worshippers; they stand in awe of the Lord's authority; they are afraid of… — Charles Spurgeon
Among the great things which are to be found among us, the being of nothingness is the greatest. — Leonardo da Vinci
The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release. — Emil Cioran
When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I… — Comte de Lautreamont
This man will not be able to understand why the sun still has the power to shine, eve if everything is vanity, as he will… — Sorin Cerin
No one ever kills himself for the love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery,… — Cesare Pavese
Look Closer... Do you see any fucking rainbows and puppies here? The Jester sleeps, Poor bastard. I am he, More or Less. Seeing, Seething, for… — Eric Nickel
EXCUSES ARE THE TOOLS OF INCOMPETENT THEY BUILD MONUMENTS OF NOTHINGNESS THOSE WHO DWELL UPON THEM ARE SELDOM GOOD FOR ANYTHING ELSE — Unknown Author
When death claimed me, no doubt I would walk along by that faint light in the brief instant before being flung once again into the… — Haruki Murakami
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever;It's loveliness increase;it will never pass into nothingness;but still will keep a bower quiet for us,and sleep… — My Favorite Qoutes
Life is but a trivial game of hide and seek. A lucid dream of nothingness, but yet we want there to be something. There is… — Jeremy Limn

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