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Quotes About Nothingness

No such thing as nothing. So it's gotta be a something, don't it?
~ Patrick Ness
where there were angels I saw no one. nothing. not even space.
~ Patti Smith
Will you take a picture? she said. I looked down at the bleak panorama and shook my head. How could I take a picture of nothing?
~ Patti Smith
When modern critics think they are demystifying literature, they are in fact being demystified by it. But since this necessarily occurs in the form of a crisis, they are blind to what takes place within themselves. What they call anthropology, linguistics, psychoanalysis, is nothing but literature reappearing like the hydra's head in the very spot where it had been suppressed. The human mind will go through amazing feats to avoid facing 'the nothingness of human matters'.
~ Paul de Man
say "From nothing comes nothing - Nihil ex nihilo!
~ Unknown
Dieu a tout fait de rien. Mais le rien perce.
~ Paul Valery
Sentimentul de a fi tot si evidenta de a nu fi nimic.
~ Paul Valery
The Vega Gull is peacock blue with silver wings, more splendid than any bird I've known, and somehow mine to fly. She's called The Messenger, and has been designed and built with great care and skill to do what should be impossible—cross an ocean in one brave launch, thirty-six hundred miles of black chop and nothingness—and to take me with her. It
~ Paula McLain
A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it into being and coax it along with words of love. Offer it each phantom crumb and shield it from harm with your body. As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart.
~ Peter Ackroyd
Yet, in the end, entropy will always emerge victorious, snuffing out the very last glimmer of heat and light. After that there is only darkness. When that state is reached even eternity will cease to exist, for one moment will be like every other and nothingness will claim the universe.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.
~ Isaiah 40:17
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
~ 1 Corinthians 13:2