Nothingness Quotes

350 quotes by 234 authors

We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life, which in the end we leave, only to drop one by one into… — Omar Khayyam
Heaven and happiness do not exist. That is your parentsâ€™ way to justify the crime of having brought you into this world. What exists is… — Fernando Vallejo
Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness. — Rainer Maria Rilke
I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you canâ€™t go any further. — Harry Callahan
Life demands sacrifice and difficult decisions from us at every moment. Living does not mean passing through a void of nothingness but rather through a… — Shin Kyung-sook
In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness. — Miyamoto Musashi
The three monotheism share a series of identical forms of aversion: hatred of reason and intelligence; hatred of freedom; hatred of all books in the… — Michel Onfray
We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the inconceivable nothingness. — Peter Wessel Zapffe
Our bodies are given life from the midst of nothingness. Existing where there is nothing is the meaning of the phrase, "Form is emptiness." That… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Sometimes you say to yourself: the fire in me is going out. But you were not the one who lit that fire. Your faith does… — Brother Roger
It is when we come to the Lord in our nothingness, our powerlessness and our helplessness that He then enables us to love in a… — Elisabeth Elliot
Unless you make tremendous efforts, you will not be convinced that effort will take you nowhere. The self is so self-confident that unless it is… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Everything comes out of nothingness and goes back into nothingness. Hence there is no need for attachment, because attachment will bring misery. Soon it will… — Rajneesh
This is why Caliban was a punishment. I realize it now - it's a beautiful, perfect world of nothingness. No connection, no longing, no .… — Jackson Pearce
Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall. The ground is where humility lives. Take it. Learn it. Breathe it… — Yasmin Mogahed
When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness. Human should be like a pot. As the pot is hold by its… — Shams Tabrizi
I like the sort of 'nothingness' of the jeans and the T-shirt. I feel that's about as close as I can get to the future… — Marc Jacobs
Expression is when you are at one with nothingness. — John Frusciante
Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art. — Anselm Kiefer
What does it mean to know and experience my own â€œnothingness?â€ It is not enough to turn away in disgust from my illusions and faults… — Thomas Merton

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