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Quotes About Nothingness

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
~ Kris Kristofferson
A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.
~ Czes?aw Mi?osz
Pope Francis said that atheists are still eligible to go to heaven. To return the favor, atheists said Popes are still eligible to go into a void of nothingness.
~ Conan O'Brien
The answer to the ancient question Why is there something rather than nothing would be that nothingis unstable.
~ Frank Wilczek
Nothingness...there in this placewhere nothingness takesbut for the glimmera steadfast shimmerall would be consumed...
~ Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
no time agoor else a lifewalking in the darki met christjesus)my heartflopped overand lay stillwhile he passed(asclose as i'm to youyes closermade of nothingexcept loneliness.
~ E.E. Cummings
My revolution of the Self, which has been such an essential part of my life so far, is all about discovering death. My destiny is to make art for my own requiem: art which gives meaning to death, tracing the beauty of colours and space in the silence of death's footsteps and the 'nothingness' it promises.
~ Yayoi Kusama
This vast and solid earth, that blazing sun, Those skies, thro' which it rolls, must all have end. What then is man? The smallest part of nothing.
~ young edward ii
His occupation gave me the feeling of "tragedy" in the most sensuous meaning of the word. A certain feeling as it were of "self-renunciation," a certain feeling of indifference, a certain feeling of intimacy with danger, a feeling like a remarkable mixture of nothingness and vital power— all these feelings swarmed forth from his calling, bore down upon me, and took me captive, at the age of four.
~ Yukio Mishima
The modern deal thus offers humans an enormous temptation, coupled with a colossal threat. Omnipotence is in front of us, almost within our reach, but below us yawns the abyss of complete nothingness.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
I was introduced to the void by the rebuffed nothingness. ReddedilmiÅŸ hiçlik taraf?ndan boÅŸlukla tan??t?r?ld?m.
~ Yves Klein
The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.
~ zizek slavoj ii
Quantum theory has reached the point where the source of all matter and energy is a vacuum, a nothingness that contains all the possibilities of everything that has ever existed or could exist. These possibilities then emerge as probabilities before "collapsing" into localized quanta, manifesting as the particles in space and time that
~ Deepak Chopra
Absolute equals nothingness.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
Darkness does not age; nothing is always nothing.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
From everything, nothing looks to nothing.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a different kind of nothingness? Because there might be knowledge then. Memory.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Death is nothing, nor life either, for that matter. To die, to sleep, to pass into nothingness, what does it matter? Everything is an illusion.
~ Mata Hari
The hell of that, the hell of nothing at all, which feels as if you are reliving every moment of your life at the Southern Reach-descending for no reason, for nothing, to find nothing.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
There was nothing left. Nothing of him, and nothing of me.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
I sunk into velvety nothingness. It caressed my skin, lapped at my temples, the nape of my neck. It circled me like smoke, its touch light, but all consuming. And just as I was about to lose consciousness, I heard the voice. 'Hello, Kali. I'm Zev.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
I feel a lot of nothing
~ Jennifer Niven
Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?
~ Emil Cioran
The despair brought by unemployment comes not only from the threat of destitution, but from the sudden view of a vast nothingness ahead. The unemployed are more likely to follow the peddlers of hope than the handers-out of relief.
~ Eric Hoffer