Nothingness Quotes

350 quotes by 234 authors

That is why I have called feminism nihilism. It says that being a woman is nothing definite and that the duty of women is to… — Harvey Mansfield
What if we're all like that? Like ghosts ... in someone's mind ... gradually fading ... fading ... until finally ... one day ... we… — Walter Wykes
Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities. — John Zerzan
The writer doesnâ€™t write for the reader. He doesnâ€™t write for himself, either. He writes to serveâ€¦something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is sheltered by the… — Joy Williams
Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of all strength, but it makes you see the nothingness of the illusory strength… — Leon Bloy
If alpha [the fine-structure constant] were bigger than it really is, we should not be able to distinguish matter from ether [the vacuum, nothingness], and… — Max Born
May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience the… — Brennan Manning
Hell is more bearable than nothingness. — Philip James Bailey
I humbly believe our life is to learn our nothingness and His being everything; when we agree with Him that we are nothing and not… — Charles George Gordon
I can't understand nothingness. I can't understand it and I can't imagine it. — Haruki Murakami
The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world — Georg Buchner
I've heard it said that grace is God reaching God's hands into the world. And the Bible tells us that we are part of the… — Cathleen Falsani
...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic, especially in its… — Charles Sanders Peirce
People who need to possess the physical copy of a book, and not merely an electronic version, are in some sense mysteics. We believe that… — Joe Queenan
You cannot be present in an abstract way. Presence is not about disappearing into nothingness. You can only be present with something that is actually… — Leonard Jacobson
'WHEN two lovers are making love, and if they are both no-selves, nothingness, then a spontaneous pleasurable sensation happens. Then their body energy, their whole… — Rajneesh
For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations,… — John Donne
I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed cavern, a pit of hell, a mimicking nothingness. — Sylvia Plath
I go into the locker room and find a corner and just sit there. I try to achieve a peaceful state of nothingness that will… — Jane Blalock
The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness. — Rajneesh

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