Nothingness Quotes

350 quotes by 234 authors

Bertrand Russell said, 'Electricity is not a thing like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave.' And it's not 'they' who… — Mary Jo Bang
If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness. — Tadao Ando
The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war. — Norman Mailer
Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is… — Soren Kierkegaard
Man is in fact nailed down - like Christ on the Cross - to a grid of paradoxes . . . he balances between the… — Vaclav Havel
It is said that peace is the basic tenet of all religion. Yet it is in the name of religion that there has been so… — Taslima Nasrin
The consumer boycott is the only open door in the dark corridor of nothingness down which farm workers have had to walk for many years.… — Cesar Chavez
What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it! — Emile M. Cioran
I want to feel my own nothingness, I want to give myself up in absolute resignation to God, to lie prostrate and passive at His… — Thomas Chalmers
There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness. Not of bad… — Stephen Fry
It is better to have a little than nothing. — Publilius Syrus
Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time. — Publilius Syrus
When you go into the space of nothingness, everything becomes known. — Gautama Buddha
Seeing into one's self-nature is seeing into nothingness. Seeing into nothingness is true seeing & eternal seeing — Shenhui
Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this… — Plato
The modern tradition of equating death with an ensuing nothingness can be abandoned. For there is no reason to believe that human death severs the… — Larry Dossey
Isolation and belonging are not absolute, provable states of being. They arise completely out of the nothingness within you; you measure their dimensions against your… — Paula Sharp
We have always understood that the foundations of the family, as an eternal unit, were laid even before this earth was created! Society without basic… — Spencer W. Kimball
If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory. — Miguel de Unamuno
Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness — Oswald Spengler

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