Nothingness Quotes - Page 14

• But you need to have lived years in nothingness to understand how a person can suddenly become frightened by a possibility.

  David Foenkinos

  Years, Needs, Possibility

  David Foenkinos (2011). “Delicacy”, p.140, A&C Black

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• If a tree fell in the forest, and you were the only one there to hear it; if its fall to the ground didn’t make a sound, would you panic in fear that you didn’t exist, or would you bask in the bliss of your nothingness?

  Andrea Gibson

  Fall, Tree, Sound

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• My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Chaos, Amazement

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• What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Arthur Rimbaud (1957). “Illuminations, and Other Prose Poems”, p.29, New Directions Publishing

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• I push against the tree and run away, stumbling, the unreal night playing with me, gravity pulling from below, behind, above, making me fall. And I run through a world that is rotating, conscious of the earth's spin, of our planet twirling as it careens through nothingness, of the stars spiraling above, of the uncertainty of everything, even ground, even sky. Mumtaz never calls out, although a thousand and one voices scream in my mind, sing, whisper, taunt me with madness.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Running, Stars, Fall

  Mohsin Hamid (2000). “Moth Smoke”, p.87, Penguin Books India

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• I hate you!” I screamed at Fang. Tucking my wings in, I aimed downward, diving toward the ground at more than two hundred miles an hour. “No you dooonnn’t!” Fang’s voice spiraled away into nothingness, far above me. Inside my head, almost drowned out by the roar of wind rushing by my ears, I heard the Voice make a tsking sound. You guys are crazy about each other, it said.

  James Patterson

  Crazy, Hate, Wind

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• I'm gone, lost, floating away into nothingness like I am in my dream, but this time it's a good feeling - like soaring, like being totally free, and I can feel the impression of his fingers everywhere that they touch, and I think of stars streaking through the sky and leaving burning trails behind them, and in that moment - however long it lasts, seconds, minutes, days - while he's saying my name into my mouth and I'm breathing into him, I realize this, right here, is the first and only time I've ever been kissed in my life.

  Lauren Oliver

  Dream, Stars, Thinking

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• How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Death, Memories, Bitter

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.184, Pan Macmillan

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• I lean over you, your equal, offering you a mirror for your perfect nothingness, for your shadows which are neither light nor absence of light, for this void which contemplates. To all that which you are, and, for our language, are not, I add a consciousness. I make you experience your supreme identity as a relationship, I name you and define you. You become a delicious passivity.

  Maurice Blanchot

  Mirrors, Light, Offering

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• Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.

  Donna Tartt

  Action, Fullness

  Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.278, Vintage

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• How small life is here and how big nothingness. The sky, tired of light, has given everything to the snow. The two trees bow their heads to each other. Clouds cross the world’s silence in a circle dance

  Robert Walser

  Tired, Clouds, Light

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• Pot put me in a position where I could walk far away from my playing and hear it in the second person. It helped me step away from myself. I stopped seeing the guitar as a thing I'm holding in my hands and started seeing it as a thing that's at one with outer space and nothingness.

  John Frusciante

  Space, Guitar, Hands

  High Times Magazine, July 1995.

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• It is said that peace is the basic tenet of all religion. Yet it is in the name of religion that there has been so much disturbance, bloodshed and persecution. It is indeed a pity that even at the close of the twentieth century we've had to witness such atrocities because of religion. Flying the flag of religion has always proved the easiest way to crush to nothingness human beings as well as the spirit of humanity.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Crush, Names, Flying

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• What every artist should try to prevent is the car, in which is our civilized life, plunging over the side of the precipice -- the exhibitionist extremist promoter driving the whole bag of tricks into a nihilistic nothingness or zero.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Zero, Artist, Car

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• Fashion: a barricade behind which men hide their nothingness.

  Kin Hubbard

  Fashion, Men, Barricades

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• 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 our task to disentangle the natural laws would be hopelessly difficult. The fact however that alpha has just its value 1/137 is certainly no chance but itself a law of nature. It is clear that the explanation of this number must be the central problem of natural philosophy.

  Max Born

  Philosophy, Law, Numbers

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• 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 the grave of nothingness.

  Omar Khayyam

  Chess, Boards, Pieces

  Omar Khayyam (1898). “Quatrains of Omar Khayyam: In English Prose”

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• 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 name of one book alone; hatred of sexuality, women,and pleasure; hatred of feminine; hatred of body, of desires, of drives. Instead Judaism, Christianity, and Islam extol faith and belief, obedience and submission, taste for death and longing for the beyond, the asexual angel and chastity, virginity and monogamous love, wife and mother, soul and spirit. In other words, life crucified and nothingness exalted.

  Michel Onfray

  Mother, Atheist, Book

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• Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be done.

  Lucan

  Believe, Doe, Done

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• The gods spend the wealth the universe gathers, they scan the wonders and fling them to nothingness. That's why they're the gods! I told you they were devils.

  Fritz Leiber

  Devil, Wonder, Wealth

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “The Wanderer”, p.341, Open Road Media

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• Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness.

  Johannes Tauler

  Sinking, Depends

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• Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for anything at all. Hello Kitty never has been, and never will be, anything. She's pure license; you can even get a Hello Kitty car! The branding thing is completely out of control, but it started as nothing and maintains its nothingness. It's not about the ego, and in that way it's very Japanese.

  Tom Sachs

  Icons, Car, Ego

  "Ichiban". www.wired.com. September 01, 2001.

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• We aren't anything in particular. There is no self. There are only ideas and states of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Ideas, Mind

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• We are made up of nothing. There is no self. We are whatever we decide we are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Made

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• Error tills its own barren soil and buries itself in the ground, since ground and dust stand for nothingness.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Errors, Dust, Soil

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.633, Jazzybee Verlag

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