Quotes About Nonexistence

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

The great discovery in our practice is that, on one level, birth and death, existence and nonexistence, self and other are the great defining themes of our lives. And on another level, it's all just a dance of insubstantial appearances, what the Buddha called "the magic show of consciousness.

We infrequently contemplate the harms that await any new-born child—pain, disappointment, anxiety, grief, and death. For any given child we cannot predict what form these harms will take or how severe they will be, but we can be sure that at least some of them will occur. None of this befalls the nonexistent. Only existers suffer harm.

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For Montaigne, the death of youth, which so often takes place unnoticed is the harder death; what we habitually refer to as 'death' is no more than the death of old age...The leap from the attenuated survival of senescence into nonexistence is much easier than the sly transition from heedless youth crabbed and regretful age.

Then the exception would be as if he did not exist at all.

Il avait à peine besoin de disparaître pour ne plus exister.

The ancient Greeks thought there was no need to count something that was nothing. And since it was nothing, they held that it was impossible to express it as a figure. So someone had to overcome this reasonable assumption, someone had to figure out how to express nothing as a number. This unknown man from India made nonexistence exist.

The ancient Greeks thought there was no need to count something that was nothing. And since it was nothing, they held that it was impossible to express it as a figure. So someone had to overcome this reasonable assumption, someone has to figure out how to express nothing as a number. This unknown man from India made nonexistence exist. Extraordinary, don't you think?

JARRY: (To audience) As to the action which is about to begin, it takes place in Poland - that is to say, nowhere.

As to the action which is about to begin, it takes place in Poland – that is to say, nowhere

In the beginning, There was neither existence nor nonexistence, All this world was unmanifest energy … The One breathed, without breath, by Its own power Nothing else was there.… RIG-VEDA In modern terms, this verse tells us that God can only be found in a virtual state, where all energy is stored before creation.

From everything, nothing looks to nothing.

What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.

The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.

What did you do to Zuulaman ?" "Zuulaman ? That's a word without meaning." "It's a place, as you very well know." Saetan shook his head. "It doesn't exist.

Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.

My self-critical mind allows me to see only the defects and faults in my own work, and so I only have the courage to write snippets and snatches, brief notes on the theme of nonexistence, and yet even the little I write is imperfect.

When we die, I believe we go to a better place: nowhere.

But the universe would not turn backward. It was a great engine projected upon the grey void of nonexistence.

But the universe would not turn backward. It was a great engine projected upon the grey void of nonexistence. His knife, if it brought the deaths of the twins, would only reverberate against that void, weaving new complexities to echo through human history, creating new surges of chaos, inviting humankind to attempt other forms of order and disorder.

The human being, more and more oppressed by the peculiar terms of his existence - one time around for each, no more than a single life per customer - has to think of the boredom of death. O those eternities of nonexistence! For people who crave continual interest and diversity, O! how boring death will be! To live in the grave, in one place, how frightful!

If you'd never been born, then you might be an Isn't! An Isn't has no fun at all. No, he disn't.

To think blankness rouses certain terror and in the feeling the sudden sense of self responding down to the smallest unaided particle of its existence as answer to the blankness of sure nonexistence