Quotes About Nothingness

There wasn't a single thing in there that reminded me of my existence.

People say of death, "There's nothing to be frightened of." They say it quickly, casually. Now let's say it again, slowly, with re-emphasis. "There's NOTHING to be frightened of." Jules Renard: "The word that is most true, most exact, most filled with meaning, is the word 'nothing.

People say of death, 'There's nothing to be frightened of'. They say it quickly, casually. Now let's say it again, slowly, with re-emphasis. 'There's NOTHING to be frightened of'. Jules Renard: 'The word that is most true, most exact, most filled with meaning, is the word nothing'.

People say of death, 'There's nothing to be frightened of.' They say it quickly, casually. Now let's say it again, slowly, with re-emphasis. 'There's NOTHING to be frightened of.' Jules Renard: "The word that is most true, most exact, most filled with meaning, is the word nothing'.

The ancients had believed that nothing came from nothing, but Heidegger reversed this maxim: ex nihilo omne qua ens fit. He ended his lecture by posing a question asked by Leibniz: "Why are there beings at all, rather than just nothing?

In his finitude each individual begins anew. For his maturing he depends upon authority in order to appropriate the content that can be handed on by tradition. As he grows up within authority, the arena in which he everywhere encounters being opens up to him. If he grows up without authority, he will indeed come to possess knowledge, he will master speaking and thinking, but he will remain at the mercy of the empty possibilities of the realm where Nothingness stares him in the face.

As a sunbeam perishes when cut off from the sun, so man apart from God would pass back into the void of nothingness from which he first leaped at the creative call.

The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man.

In the eye of the universe, man is nothing! And man's hardest job is to be able to get rid of this nothingness!

Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.

Not knowing anything, not searching for anything, understanding that we can't hold on to anything, leaves us with nothing — nothing except our original nature, pure awareness.

Every thing is of the nature of no thing.

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

Seeing into one's self-nature is seeing into nothingness. Seeing into nothingness is true seeing & eternal seeing

I use the terms "sky" and "earth" because as a human I cannot imagine those elements not being there. It is a way to give substance to nothingness.

Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.

Nothingness is the basis of everything that exists today. It's the mother of creation & consciousness!

Absolute equals nothingness.

We came out of nothing and we will go back to nothing.

Philosophy is about everything when I say everything I mean both something and nothing. Something is what we can perceive and nothing is beyond our senses.

Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.

Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.

Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is the character of all life and being.