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Quotes About Nonexistence

They sipped and ate, all of existence passed over by nonexistence, the gate leading nowhere, and they watched the tea spill copious ribbony curls of vapor, watched their breath join the mist slowly twisting and turning, twisting and turning.
~ Kiran Desai
Why are there no names for the abscence of things? Why is there no name for the abscence of humanity?
~ Carrie Jones
I have been so naughted in Thy Love's existence that my nonexistence is a thousand times sweeter than my existence
~ Rumi
Poate c? este timpul s? v? fac portretul lui Jasmin; dar în întuneric- fiindc? ferestrele nu se deschid niciodat?, de vreme ce Jasmin nu exist? È™i, prin urmare, nu poate avea mam?, ceea ce este incontestabil, dup? cum v? va dovedi urmarea acestei poveÈ™ti- în întuneric, deci, descrierea nu ar fi exact?.
~ Vian Boris
We are all afraid that one day we shall pass away into nonexistence. But if the truth be known, nonexistence is trembling in fear that it might be given human shape.
~ Jamal Rahman
Whether or not you can imagine your own death, it seems quite natural to be at least a bit afraid of not existing.
~ Nigel Warburton
When it comes to nothingness, there is no cup.
~ Laura Kasischke
The pessimist's credo, or one of them, is that nonexistence never hurt anyone and existence hurts everyone.
~ Thomas Ligotti
Paradoxically, this evolution toward life-sickness would be promoted by a mounting happiness among us. This happiness would be quickened by our following Mainländer's evangelical guidelines for achieving such things as universal justice and charity. Only by securing every good that could be gotten in life, Mainländer figured, could we know that they were not as good as nonexistence.
~ Thomas Ligotti
The pessimist's credo, or one of them, is that nonexistence never hurt anyone and existence hurts everyone. Although our selves may be illusory creations of consciousness, our pain is nonetheless real.
~ Thomas Ligotti
There is no 'Bat Out of Hell III.' That should have never happened. To me, that record is nonexistent. It doesn't exist.
~ Meat Loaf
Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.
~ Isabelle Adjani
Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?
~ Cormac McCarthy
The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not. The existence or nonexistence of a creator is independent of our desires. A world without God or purpose may seem harsh or pointless, but that alone doesn't require God to actually exist.
~ Lawrence M. Krauss
A time comes when you don't have to use meditation techniques anymore. You just sit down and you are nonexistence itself.
~ lenz frederick
whom we do not believe. Who we know does not exist.
~ James Salter
When you were neither seed not child and I was nothing too
~ Leonard Cohen
Tuesday: Nothing. Existed.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
F]ree will seems to violate all we know of how the world works, but as long as we cannot construct a logical proof of its nonexistence we cling to it tenaciously, even desperately.
~ Jeffrey M. Schwartz
Yeah, my boyfriend does this REAAAALLYY cute thing..where he doesn't exist.
~ Unknown
The business of philosophy is critique. It clarifies the limits of meaningful language. Science on the other hand consists of all true propositions. It studies the existence or nonexistence of states of affairs.
~ John Heaton
Death can be successfully put out of mind for the simple reason that it is beyond human experience. Death is either the abstract concept of nonexistence or the emotion of fear.
~ Unknown
Enthusiasm is greatest asset in the world; it is the difference between nonexistence and excellence.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
If I were dead, I wouldn't be sad, and I wouldn't be glad, because I wouldn't be.
~ Marcus Sedgwick