Nothingness Quotes - Page 9

• All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Grief, Joy, Veils

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• To go beyond karma you have to end the structure of self.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Self, Structure

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• All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Ends, Graves, Gates

  George Bernard Shaw (2016). “The Adventures Of Black Girl in Her Search for God”, p.8, George Bernard Shaw

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• I foresaw my life unfolding as an interminable stretch of nothingness and so I spent my years on Tinos floundering, feeling like a stand-in for myself, a proxy, as though my real self resided elsewhere, waiting to unite someday with this dimmer, more hollow self. I felt marooned. An exile in my own home

  Khaled Hosseini

  Real, Home, Self

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.292, A&C Black

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• I feel like a blonde nothingness, alone in my own body ...... Today it's not drugs that fill my body, its despair.

  Farrah Fawcett

  Drug, Despair, Blonde

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• It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself.

  Mother Teresa

  Emptiness, Realizing, Silence Of The Heart

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.8, New World Library

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• Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.

  Isabelle Adjani

  Emptiness

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• I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.

  Tom Hooper

  Thinking, Silence, Emptiness

  "Director Tom Hooper Exclusive Interview THE KING’S SPEECH". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. November 26, 2010.

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• When you laugh at the world, the world dissolves.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Laughing

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• The Frisbee is a round disk. That's the somethingness. But it has another side; it has a nothingness which you cannot perceive with your physical mind or your senses.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Mind

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• The more perfectly you can refine the process of Frisbee, the tighter your energy is and the more you become one with the nothingness of the Frisbee, the nothingness of the play.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Play

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• I fear You and, yes, I love You: and yet I cannot believe. Why could You not let me believe, where so many believed? Or else, why could You not let me deride, as the remainder derided so noisily? O God, why could You not let me have faith? for You gave me no faith in anything, not even in nothingness. It was not fair.

  James Branch Cabell

  Believe, Love You, Have Faith

  James Branch Cabell (2008). “Between Dawn and Sunrise”, p.160, Wildside Press LLC

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• None of this exists. All important decisions in the universe occur someplace else.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Decision, Important

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• The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Disaster, Release, Phenomenon

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• Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Easy, Paint, Application

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Clive Giboire (1990). “Lovingly, Georgia: the complete correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe & Anita Pollitzer”, Touchstone Books

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• Qualityless simply means there is no way to discuss it. There is no way to pin it down. It could be anything at any given moment since infinity is not bound even by itself, nor the words that human beings choose to try and talk around it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Trying, Infinity

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• True humility is a Christian grace and one of the fruits of the Spirit, originating in a deep consciousness of sin past and present, and leading us to discover our nothingness in the view of God, our insufficiency for any thing that is good, and prompting us, as we feel our infirmities, to strive after higher and yet higher attainments.

  James McCosh

  Christian, Humility, Past

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Dictionary by Gilbert, Josiah Hotchkiss, p. 329, 1895.

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• There is no evil, there's no bad; there's no good. These are human ideas. There's no creator, there's no creation; there's no God, there's no nirvana, there's no perfection. These are ideas.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ideas, Evil, Perfection

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• The world is always ending and always beginning at every moment.

  Frederick Lenz

  World, Moments

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• Only while they are conforming their actions to the model of some archetypal hero do the Arunta feel that they are truly alive, for in those roles they are immortal. The occasions on which they slip from such molds are quite meaningless, for time immediately devours those occasions and reduces them to nothingness.

  Huston Smith

  Hero, Mold, Roles

  "The World's Religions". Book by Huston Smith, 1991.

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• More often than not, nothingness is reluctantly and despairingly taken to be the only hypothesis possible when all the others have failed, since by definition it cannot be disproven and is beyond the scope of reason.

  Georges Bernanos

  Taken, Definitions, Reason

  Georges Bernanos (1999). “The Impostor”, p.153, U of Nebraska Press

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• And I, who timidly hate life, fear death with fascination. I fear this nothingness that could be something else, and I fear it as nothing and as something else simultaneously, as if gross horror and non-existence could coincide there, as if my coffin could entrap the eternal breathing of a bodily soul, as if immortality could be tormented by confinement. The idea of hell, which only a satanic soul could have invented seems to me to have derived from this sort of confusion - a mixture of two different fears that contradict and contaminate each other.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Hate, Breathing, Ideas

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, number 168, 1982.

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• Life is a series of dreams, a series of interlocking awarenesses. I don't necessarily believe in linear time. Everything happens all at once forever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Believe, Forever

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• It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Lying, Knows, Ifs

  Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2006.

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• The world is empty - all of the people and places, the earth, the seas, mountains, deserts, forests and cities, and the beings that inhabit them, are unchangeable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Cities, Sea, People

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