Quotes About Nothingness

For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed. Blaise Pascal, Pensées No. 72

Es más fácil morir de nada que de dolor, ante el dolor uno puede rebelarse, ante la nada, no.

Can nothingness be so prodigal?

The last notes dripped from the mandolin and melted like magic coinage into nothing. The nothing contained the hall, the limbo that was blind as Cupid, did not breathe, held to its own fancies, its own hidden wants and musings.

I do not sing songs. I sing dreams, and they are nothing. And since you'll have me sing nothing, I need not sing at all.

And when the sea swallowed up the shore and the waves heaved under the ship and the blue horizon encircled us, I immediately felt an overwhelming intimacy with the sea. I knew this green, infinite giant, as though it were roving back and forth within my ribs. The whole of the journey I savored that feeling of being nowhere, alone, before and behind me either eternity or nothingness.

against his back. He swayed forward, on the brink of the high cliff. And his right foot, his enormous iron right foot, lifted – up, out, into space, and the Iron Man stepped forward, off the cliff, into nothingness. CRRRAAAASSSSSSH! Down the cliff the Iron Man came toppling, head over heels. CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! From rock to rock, snag to snag, tumbling slowly.

porque el reposo es eufemismo de derrota, y el sueño máscara de una nada metida en cada poro de la vida [...]

Eu quero escrever o romance do nada. Eu quero mostrar a mais secreta das suspeitas humanas: a de sua própria inutilidade.

Sí, cenizas de la nada, le contesté yo. - Ni cenizas siquiera dijo el hombre. Ya ni los sueños quedan...

Death is death. Whether you die smiling or with tears in your eyes, it amounts to the same thing. A whole heap of nothing

If those sweet lips, that goblet of wine, Yes, everything, ends in non-existence, Then remember, for as long as you exist, That you are only what you will be one day: Nothing. It's impossible to be less than that.

And when a man becomes nothing, he instantly becomes Everything!

He made all things from nothing, and these perfections will be in things only in so far as nothingness can receive them, or to put it crudely, with a certain mingling of nothingness: whereas they are in God in utter purity.

It is a nothingness unattainable by the intellect.

The true Self or Buddha-nature is precisely this nothingness or emptiness (sunyata).

Seen like that, he was just a shadow; darkness, a nothingness, before real power. The men of this world, epics included, would pass from time. I might be a worm to him, but he was a worm himself in the grand scheme of the universe.

Somewhere far beyond this world, I feel nothing anymore

just a state of nothingness.

What we're in is a vacuum.

It is the obscene horror, the dry, fucked-out aspect of things which makes this crazy civilization look like a crater. It is this great yawning gulf of nothingness which the creative spirits and mothers of the race carry between their legs.

For backward or forward, eternity is the same; already have we been the nothing we dread to be.

Death reminds us that we are nothing.

He looks at Mama out of the corner of his eye, again surprised by how little she is. As if all of her life has been a slow process of shrinkage. But just what is that shrinkage? Is it the real shrinkage of a person abandoning his adult dimensions and starting on the long journey through old age and death toward distances where there is only a nothingness without dimension?