Quotes About Nothingness

The notion of nothingness is not characteristic of laboring humanity: those who toil have neither time nor inclination to weigh their dust; they resign themselves to the difficulties or the doltishness of fate; they hope: hope is a slave's virtue.

We are fulfilled only when we aspire to nothing, when we are impregnated by that nothing to the point of intoxication.

The initial revelation of any monastery: everything is nothing. Thus begin all mysticisms. It is less than one step from nothing to God, for God is the positive expression of nothingness.

Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it, this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What do do? where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.

Cinicul este spectatorul acestei universale absente. El priveste - îndurerat sau rîzînd — la nimic.

Gândul la Dumnezeu este un obstacol sinuciderii, dar nu morÈ›ii . El nu imblanzeste deloc întunericul de care se va fi speriat Dumnezeu pe vremea când îÈ™i caut? pulsul prin teroarea nimicului...

My soul is chaos, how can it be at all? There is everything in me: search and you will find out ... in me anything is possible, for I am he who at the supreme moment, in front of absolute nothingness, will laugh.

I have tried to be faithful to my knowledge, to force my instincts to yield, and realized that it is no use wielding the weapons of nothingness if you cannot turn them against yourself.

Without God, everything is nothingness; and God? Supreme nothingness.

Todo lo que no tiende a la pureza de la nada está embebido de una feroz vulgaridad

I knew nothingness by heart, and I accepted my knowledge.

The great systems are actually no more than brilliant tautologies. What advantage is it to know that the nature of being consists in the 'will to live,' in 'idea,' or in the whim of God or of Chemistry? A mere proliferation of words, subtle displacements of meanings. What is loathes the verbal embrace, and our innermost experience reveals us nothing beyond the privileged and inexpressible moment. Moreover, Being itself is only a pretension of Nothingness.

Where does happiness begin? When we have persuaded ourselves that there is no truth. All salvation comes thenceforth, even salvation through nothing. He who does not believe in the impossibility of truth, or does not rejoice in it, has only one road to salvation, which he will, however, never find.

And indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference.

Actually I don't need the sleep as much as I need the escape. It's a wonderful way to escape. I think I can't stand it and then I just take a pill and wait for sweet nothingness to take over. At this stage in my life nothingness is a lot better than somethingness.

Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?

Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.

And in front of him there lay not death but annihilation.

He is simply a hole in the air.

For they knew nothing, absolutely nothing—nothing, nothing, nothing, like the Dadaists.

From nothingness, there arose great love; now, its source nullified, that love, searching and sick, converts to the most abysmal suffering imaginable.

From nothingness, there arose great love; now, its source nullified, that love, searching and sick, converts to the most abysmal suffering imaginable. In

There is no there there.

Even in empty space, time and space still exist.