Nothingness Quotes - Page 2

• In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.30, BookBaby

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• Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

  Samuel Beckett

  Silence, Quiet, Language

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• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Joy, Spirit

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Men, Vision

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• The physical universe that you see is all in your mind. When you turn your mind off, or become unconscious, the physical universe, for you, disappears. Then, when you awaken your consciousness, the universe reappears magically. Quite simple really - no thoughts on your part, no physical world. As Walt Whitman succinctly stated: "The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual - namely to You." Without your mind to process it, the universe simply disappears into nothingness.

  Wayne Dyer

  Simple, Mind, World

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• Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

  Woody Allen

  Death, Witty, Humorous

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• 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 which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our life, which is inaccessable to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will. This little point of nothingness and of absolute poverty is the pure glory of God in us.

  Thomas Merton

  God, Spiritual, Truth

  Thomas Merton (2012). “On Christian Contemplation”, p.41, New Directions Publishing

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• Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

  A. A. Milne

  Happiness, Being Happy, Appreciation

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• If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

  Tadao Ando

  People, Giving, Architecture

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• Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

  Lucretius

  Philosophy, Elements, Return

  "On the Nature of Things: De Rerum Natura: Book I" by Lucretius (250), Jule 1, 1989.

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• 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

  Inspirational, World, Cyclones

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• Moment after moment everything comes out of nothingness. This is the true joy of life.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  True Joy, Moments, Joy Of Life

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• The way of nothingness is the way of Zen. It is just a term. The contemplation of nothingness or everythingness is where everything starts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Way, Contemplation, Introduction

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• We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.

  Lucretius

  Philosophy, Matter, Seeds

  "De Rerum Natura". Book I, line 206,

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• The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.

  Georg Buchner

  World, Chaos, Born

  "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Büchner, Act IV, 1835.

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• The center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth.

  Thomas Merton

  Sin, Illusion, Pure

  Thomas Merton (2009). “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”, p.155, Image

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• The writer doesn’t write for the reader. He doesn’t write for himself, either. He writes to serve…something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is sheltered by the wings of nothingness — those exquisite, enveloping, protecting wings.

  Joy Williams

  Writing, Wings, Reader

  Joy Williams (2015). “Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals”, p.181, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

  John Updike

  Jobs, Religion, Literature

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.228, Random House

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• 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 totally discouraged it will not give up. Mere verbal conviction is not enough. Hard facts alone can show the absolute nothingness of the self-image.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Giving Up, Self, Effort

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• Nothing to do but work,
  Nothing to eat but food,
  Nothing to wear out but clothes,
  To keep one from going nude.

  Benjamin Franklin King, Jr.

  Clothes, Never Quit, Quitting

  "The Pessimist". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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  A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

  John Keats

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  Endymion bk. 1, l. 1 (1818)

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• --then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

  John Keats

  I Love You, Thinking, World

  'When I have fears that I may cease to be' (written 1818)

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• I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

  Venerable Bede

  Reborn, Centre, Acknowledge

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• 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

  People, Howards End, Wells

  E.M. Forster (2015). “Howard's End”, p.284, Xist Publishing

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• 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

  Useless Things, Atheism, Littles

  "God Dies". Essay by Frances Farmer, 1931.

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