Quotes and Sayings about Nothingness
"Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it."
- Woody Allen
(Related: Nothingness)
"If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness."
- Tadao Ando
(Related: People, Nothingness)
"Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."
- Samuel Beckett
(Related: Nothingness, Silence, Word)
"The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world."
- Georg Buchner
(Related: God, Chaos, Nothingness, World)
"To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with."
- Angela Carter
(Related: Future, Nothingness, Now)
"Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness."
- Kim Elizabeth
(Related: Death, Life, Thought, May, Nothing, Nothingness)
"I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness."
- Frances Farmer
(Related: Time, God, Nothingness, Waste)
"People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness."
- E. M. Forster
(Related: Death, People, Nothing, Nothingness)
"Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Joy, Nothingness, Possessions, Service, Spirit)
"God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything."
- Bede Griffiths
(Related: Life, God, Knowledge, Nothingness)
"The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company."
- Pope John XXIII
(Related: Feelings, Company, Nothingness)
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness."
- John Keats
(Related: Beauty, Joy, Nothingness, Will)
"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 educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness."
- Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
(Related: Thought, Action, Strength, Thoughts, Contradiction, Forget, Mind, Nothingness)
"One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness."
- Cesare Pavese
(Related: Love, Misery, Nothingness, Vulnerability, Woman)
"If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory."
- Miguel de Unamuno
(Related: Hope, Victory, Destiny, Fight, Injustice, Nothingness)
"Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life."
- John Updike
(Related: Life, Religion, Jobs, Nothingness)
"God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through."
- Paul Valery
(Related: God, Nothing, Nothingness)
"The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history."
- Lew Wallace
(Related: History, Death, Monuments, Nations, Nothingness)