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Quotes About Nothingness

What is greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it, you'll die?
~ Beatrice Wood
All I say cancels out, I'll have said nothing.
~ beckett samuel ii
Nothing is more real than nothing.
~ beckett samuel ii
and after discarding the emptiness of the Big Congested Mess, we discover the fullness of Nothing.
~ Benjamin Hoff
The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.
~ Emil Cioran
Reality's not strange, not unexpected.Reality doesn't reside in the hallucination of events. Reality is uneventfulness, vacancy, flatness. Reality is that nothing happens.
~ Graham Swift
Humans believe in nothingness, in zeros. It is one of their distinguishing traits. They keep inventing nothing. Forerunners know otherwise.
~ Greg Bear
Ja, vem var hon, att hon kunde våga påstå, att allt det här spektaklet med Karl-Artur, det var ingenting? Det var inte samvetskval, det var inte någon straffdom, det var just jämnt ingenting.
~ Selma Lagerlöf
On se souvient de rien, et puisqu'on oublie tout, rien c'est bien mieux que tout.
~ Serge Gainsbourg
God-bye, for the rest of this life and for the long nothing.
~ Sharon Olds
If ever there were a time there was nothing, there would be nothing now.
~ R. C. Sproul
Old Zen is the way of nothingness, the way of having a good time.
~ Frederick Lenz
Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.
~ John Steinbeck
Time is that by which at every moment all things become as nothing in our hands, and thereby lose all their true value.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Nothing consumes time like nothing.
~ Russell Ackoff
Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.
~ Anselm Kiefer
Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.
~ William Shakespeare
Sometimes nothing is the scariest thing of all
~ Mary Downing Hahn
I shrink into myself in despair at my nothingness.
~ Mary Shelley
If you write a whole line of zeros,it's still nothing, (Kira Alexandrovna)
~ Ayn Rand
Perhaps there is nothing to be understood, perhaps understanding is simply not to be found, is not applicable to such a thing. But it is hard, hard, not to try to understand, even for me, who accepts that all is nothing, that sense does not exist.
~ B.S. Johnson
the all-consuming nothingness and everythingness of an infant.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
There wasn't any
~ Barry Eisler
We have all sorts of stories about heaven and hell, about oblivion and nothingness, about 'coming back,' and so on. But they are all stories.
~ Steve Hagen