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Quotes About Nothingness

And no one knew what was in store for the dead, he said, perhaps nothing at all but perhaps, on the other hand, there was something, probably a great boredom, he said, a deathly boredom.
~ Natalia Ginzburg
The dead have nothing left to them but a silent faith in that unknowable infinity--even if theirs is an infinity that nothing waits but an infinity of infinities.
~ Neal Shusterman
my youth, one time, that time I knew even through the nothingness, it was a celebration of something not to do but only know.
~ Charles Bukowski
What a pitiful mass of dangerous nothing
~ Charles Bukowski
My only ambition is not to be anything at all; it seems the most sensible thing.
~ Charles Bukowski
Todos vamos a morir, todos nosotros. ¡Que Circo! Debería bastar con eso para amarnos los unos a los otros, pero no es así. Nos aterrorizan y aplastan las trivialidades de la vida; nos devora la nada.
~ Charles Bukowski
After that, we had no
~ Thomas Wolfe
Maybe it's a crackpot theory, but in the aftermath of my sickness, I've often wondered if what we call insanity might be a biological response to mankind's consciousness of its own mortality, a way of unknowing what we know, a defense against the specter of nothingness and foreverness and intolerable finality.
~ Tim O'Brien
If such a thing called happiness exists in this world, it should be something which resembles the limitless nothingness. Nihility is having nothing and having nothing to lose. If that isn't happiness, then what is?
~ Tite Kubo
There is nothing.. in you.. and in me..
~ Tite Kubo
Der Kollege hat einfach das gewisse - Nichts
~ Kerstin Gier
Heaven no longer exists, nor does the earth.
~ Kohta Hirano
Why are there no names for the abscence of things? Why is there no name for the abscence of humanity?
~ Carrie Jones
I feel myself dissolving, vanishing into nothingness, for if there is no one in the world who cares for you, do you really exist at all?
~ Cassandra Clare
I am a hollow shell, the crab's died, there's nothing left inside. Don't they know that?
~ George R.R. Martin
More often than not, nothingness is reluctantly and despairingly taken to be the only hypothesis possible when all the others have failed, since by definition it cannot be disproven and is beyond the scope of reason.
~ Georges Bernanos
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you will be nothing.
~ Martial
Nothing ever happened - Not even this
~ Jack Kerouac
Then it's goodbye, Sangsara for me Besides, girls aren't as good as they look And Samadhi is better than you think When it starts in hitting your head In with Buzz of glittergold Heaven's Angels, wailing, saying We've been waiting for you since morning, Jack Why were you so long dallying in the sooty room? This transcendental Brilliance Is the better part (of Nothingness I sing) Okay. Quit. Mad. Stop.
~ Jack Kerouac
I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe the nothingness and purity of it. Is there a certain and definite teaching to be given to all living creatures? was the question probably asked to beetle browed snowy Dipankara, and his answer was the roaring silence of the diamond.
~ Jack Kerouac
I believe life is a parenthesis between two nothings. I'm an atheist. I believe in a personal God, which is conscience, and that's what we must be accountable to every day.
~ Mario Benedetti
My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
~ Arthur Rimbaud
I haven't been writing for years. I lost faith. it's not for me. Too many levels. -What levels? -All those levels of existence. us down here, and up there, high above us. the ceiling of the universe. I've chosen nothingness.
~ Tadeusz Konwicki
At some point, Paul vaguely realized, technology had begun for him to mostly only indicate the inevitability and vicinity of nothingness. Instead
~ Tao Lin