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Last updated on April 18, 2025.
The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.
Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.
With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.
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.
In the eye of the universe, man is nothing! And man's hardest job is to be able to get rid of this nothingness!
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.
The center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth.
The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
When I drank, I'd be happy for 10 minutes. When I got high, I'd feel a sense of nothingness for about an hour. But in the end, my negative emotions always came rushing back.
All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.
We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust...
The stars made a circle, and in the middle, we dance.
Moment after moment everything comes out of nothingness. This is the true joy of life.
The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.
I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed cavern, a pit of hell, a mimicking nothingness.
The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.
People like Duran Duran were a big production but it was a nothingness. That's just my personal opinion.
Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness.
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 gods spend the wealth the universe gathers, they scan the wonders and fling them to nothingness. That's why they're the gods! I told you they were devils.
Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.
I feel like a blonde nothingness, alone in my own body ...... Today it's not drugs that fill my body, its despair.
An artistic endeavour comes into the world naked, unnamed, and vulnerable. Every creative effort requires the artist to wrest something from nothingness, a purposive cosmos from an apparently indifferent chaos.
It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself.
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.
After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
You are fighting against nothingness all the time by creating a series of shields that you call personality, life history, feelings, ideas, and ways of seeing.
Hip-hop is a beautiful culture. It's inspirational, because it's a culture of survivors. You can create beauty out of nothingness.
my youth, one time, that time I knew even through the nothingness, it was a celebration of something not to do but only know.
[The politicians] become nothingness and they don't do the job that they got elected to do. And it happens time and time again.
Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with 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.
Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?
Saints are described as fearing the name of God; they are reverent worshippers; they stand in awe of the Lord's authority; they are afraid of offending Him; they feel their own nothingness in the sight of the Infinite One.
To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.
Nothingness cannot be defined; the softest thing cannot be snapped.
When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it.
You cannot be present in an abstract way. Presence is not about disappearing into nothingness. You can only be present with something that is actually here.
Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life is writing.
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.
Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.
The Frisbee is a round disk. That's the somethingness. But it has another side; it has a nothingness which you cannot perceive with your physical mind or your senses.
The modern tradition of equating death with an ensuing nothingness can be abandoned. For there is no reason to believe that human death severs the quality of the oneness in the universe.
Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is infinite.
The search for happiness ... always ends in the ghastly sense of the bottomless nothingness into which you will inevitably fall if you strain any further.
I will endure until the stars wink out & the very last trace of heat ebbs from the cosmos & there is nothing but eternal icy nothingness
The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets; you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.
Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.
Christianity ... that musty old theology, which already has its grave clothes on, and is about to be buried... A wall of Bible, brimstone, church and corruption has hitherto hemmed women into nothingness.
Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." ...On the other hand, he SAID it.
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
We can carve time out of thin air, or we can fill up even infinite stretches of time with nothingness. These are our choices.
Error tills its own barren soil and buries itself in the ground, since ground and dust stand for nothingness.
Today is the first day of the rest of your short, brutish existence as a sentient creature before being snuffed out into utter nothingness for all eternity.
Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
I'm not really into sci-fi movies, but I'm into the science of space a lot. I love astronomy and thinking about the nothingness of the everythingness of space.
There is always something sad about the trams, may be because they are like our lives: They appear from nothingness and disappear in the horizon of the crowds.
Old Zen is the way of nothingness, the way of having a good time.
People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.
To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.
