Nothingness Quotes

350 quotes by 234 authors

Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center into-what? into nothingness?… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being. — Heinz Pagels
I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism. — Isaac Asimov
When I die I won't go to heaven or hell; there will just be nothingness. — Isaac Asimov
In the Lotus Sutra, it is said everything is emptiness - this world is empty, hell is empty, heaven is empty, God is empty, everything… — Rajneesh
My whole effort is to help you to disappear. My whole effort is to help you to be so empty: anatta - non-being. Because if… — Rajneesh
When all the faces have been rejected and emptiness is left, you have found the original face. Emptiness is the original face. Zero is the… — Rajneesh
One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke. Don't get attached to anything. This attachment takes you away… — Rajneesh
To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness. — Laozi
Bullies enjoy dark happiness; these are the blank parts that eventually fill their minds with nothingness. — Emily Shanks
My Lord Jesus Christ, who, for the love You bear to mankind, do remain night and day in this Sacrament, full of pity and love,… — Alphonsus Liguori
Assuming the universe came from nothing, it is empty to begin with... Only by the constant action of an agent outside the universe, such as… — Victor J. Stenger
There is no ground for supposing that matter and energy existed before [the Big Bang] and were suddenly galvanized into action. For what could distinguish… — E. T. Whittaker
In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such as for example… — Cyrano de Bergerac
At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark… — Thomas Merton
One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke. — Rajneesh
Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, the world, and everything… — David Berlinski
Today is the first day of the rest of your short, brutish existence as a sentient creature before being snuffed out into utter nothingness for… — Matt Groening
My loneliness...still comes over me sometimes...It's a liminal, lost sensation of having wandered wide, endless boulevards, among rows of orange trees, winter butterflies, seasons reversed… — Marco Roth
Nothingness cannot be defined; the softest thing cannot be snapped. — Bruce Lee

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