Nothingness Quotes - Page 18

• Old Zen is the way of nothingness, the way of having a good time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Way, Good Times, Introduction

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• The hypothesis is pretty; its only fault is that it is neither demonstrated nor demonstrable. Who does not see that this is purely arbitrary fiction that puts nothingness as existing and proposes nothing more than simple noncontradiciton?

  Galileo Galilei

  Simple, Thinking, Doe

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• Remember, grab you're future with both hands and mold it into what you want it to be. It's the determined, who create the life they want, while the idle sit by and watch it fade away into nothingness. The future belongs to the exceptional individuals, who can see the light of the future, at the end of the tunnel.

  James D. Watson

  Motivational, Hands, Tunnels

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• The search for happiness ... always ends in the ghastly sense of the bottomless nothingness into which you will inevitably fall if you strain any further.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Happiness, Fall, Ends

  D. H. Lawrence, Dieter Mehl (2002). “The Fox, The Captain's Doll, The Ladybird”, p.69, Cambridge University Press

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• They say martyrdom is the highest rank a believer can achieve! Do not believe in this! The highest rank is the life itself, it is the existence itself! There is no rank in death, but only nothingness! Rank exists only in life! Stick to the life, stay away from death! Neither kill nor die!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Believe, Sticks

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• Healthy mysticism praises acts of letting go, of being emptied, of getting in touch with the space inside and expanding this until it merges with the space outside. Space meeting space; empty pouring into empty. Births happen from that encounter with emptiness, nothingness. . . . Let us not fight emptiness and nothingness, but allow it to penetrate us even as we penetrate it.

  Matthew Fox

  Letting Go, Fighting, Space

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• You may be going through things right now that are painfully preparing you for some precious service to Jesus and to his people. When a person strikes rock bottom with a sense of nothingness or helplessness, he may find that he has struck the Rock of Ages

  John Piper

  Jesus, Rocks, People

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• I think there will be a reaction - a reaction will set in against this communal dissociation. You know, man doesn't stand forever, his nullification. Once, there will be a reaction, and I see it setting in, you know, when I think of my patients, they all seek their own existence and to assure their existence against that complete atomization into nothingness or into meaninglessness. Man cannot stand a meaningless life.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Thinking, Forever

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• It's a fantastic thing that from moment to the next moment if God were to have stopped for a split second we would disintegrate into nothingness. And the incredible thing is that God breaths this breath and keeps each of us in existence, in being, even when we chose to reject God. Now if I had that kind of power I would snuff you out! But God doesn't.

  Desmond Tutu

  Snuff, Splits, Next

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• [The politicians] become nothingness and they don't do the job that they got elected to do. And it happens time and time again.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Politician, Happens

  Source: www.economist.com

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• We're a culture more than ever that wants proof of everything, we want things fast, and someone sends you an email, you want to answer in five minutes. We have to allow ourselves nothingness, in our relationships too.

  Patti Smith

  Email, Culture, Answers

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

  Samuel Butler

  Faith, Motivation, Littles

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4356, Delphi Classics

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• May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience the powerlessness and poverty of a child and sing and dance in the love of God who is the Father, Son and Spirit.

  Brennan Manning

  Children, Father, Son

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.17, NavPress

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• Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

  Philip James Bailey

  Evil, Hell, Bearable

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.36

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• Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Joy, Marvelous, Pure

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.240, Vintage

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• I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can’t go any further.

  Harry Callahan

  Photography, Artist, Thinking

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• 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 web of relationships among beings, each with their own weight and volume and texture.

  Shin Kyung-sook

  Mean, Sacrifice, Decision

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• In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Evil, Principles, Way

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.45, Bottom of the Hill

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• When you unite the nothingness of your mind with the nothingness of the Frisbee, then the Frisbee is not a Frisbee, and you are not you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Mind

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• I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.

  Daniel Keyes

  Fear, Life Or Death, Ifs

  David Rogers, Daniel Keyes (1969). “Flowers for Algernon: One Act”, p.28, Dramatic Publishing

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• That we may merge into the deep and dazzling darkness, vanish into it, dissolve in it forever in an unbelievable bliss beyond imagination, for absolute nothingness represents absolute bliss.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Spiritual, Imagination, Forever

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• Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Book, Love You

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