quotes about Nothingness
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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
-- Arthur RimbaudSource : Arthur Rimbaud (1957). “Illuminations, and Other Prose Poems”, p.29, New Directions Publishing
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
-- Arthur SchopenhauerSource : Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.299, Oxford University Press
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Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing.
-- Aulus Persius FlaccusSource : "The Satires". Book by Aulus Persius Flaccus, I, 111. 83,
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Nothingness cannot be defined; the softest thing cannot be snapped.
-- Bruce Lee -
I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.
-- Daniel KeyesSource : David Rogers, Daniel Keyes (1969). “Flowers for Algernon: One Act”, p.28, Dramatic Publishing
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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 -
We can do nothing without prayer.
-- Edward McKendree Bounds -
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Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness...
-- Hugh Jackman -
Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.
-- Isabelle Adjani -
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
-- Jean CocteauSource : Jean Cocteau, Margaret Crosland (1972). “Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings”, Owen
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Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.
-- John Frusciante -
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Everything is eternal Nothingness does not exist No thing has ever become nothing And nothing has never become something What is has always been and will always be
-- John Frusciante -
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
-- Lucretius -
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.
-- Mark Strand -
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We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the inconceivable nothingness.
-- Peter Wessel ZapffeSource : "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, (1989 - 90).
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Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.
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It is better to have a little than nothing.
-- Publilius Syrus -
Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke -