Nothingness Quotes

In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not there if you want to keep writing good code.

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.

The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.

Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.

I'm happy to be reminded that an ordinary day full of nothing but nothingness can make you feel like you've won the lottery.

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.

I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.

Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.

I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.

There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.

I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can’t go any further.

It is better to have a little than nothing.

If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.

What if we're all like that? Like ghosts ... in someone's mind ... gradually fading ... fading ... until finally ... one day ... we just disappear ... drift into nothingness. Wouldn't that be sad?

There's nothing I hate more than nothing. Nothing keeps me up at night. I toss and turn over nothing. Nothing could cause a great big fight.

[The politicians] become nothingness and they don't do the job that they got elected to do. And it happens time and time again.

Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.

One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke.

Nothing great ever happens from thinking small.

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.

Without using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of all nothingness: you have a big tense mess and out of it comes some joy. It must be magic.

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?

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 only reality was nothingness, and over it a hypocrisy of words.

Even a minute of dying is better than an eternity of nothingness.

It's like an athlete. He has a string of hot years, and then he fades into nothingness. The actor doesn't necessarily fade into nothingness. After his hot years, he fades into a different category.

What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!

The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

We can carve time out of thin air, or we can fill up even infinite stretches of time with nothingness. These are our choices.

I feel like a blonde nothingness, alone in my own body ...... Today it's not drugs that fill my body, its despair.

I venture that those of us who are most serene when faced with the possibility of nothingness are the ones who've reached furthest to the downward and upward of their beings.

We were never there to begin with. What we are, or conceive of ourselves as, is a perception.

You're a part of me. I'm a part of you and we are all a part of this great nothingness.

Some types of nothing are more fun than other types of nothing.

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.

The world is always ending and always beginning at every moment.

We are made up of nothing. There is no self. We are whatever we decide we are.

There is no such thing as reality. Reality is what you make it.

Nirvana is a very exclusive club - no one is in it.

Zen has lost its zip, if you will, or its nothingness and has become ritualistic Its established in monastaries with strict codes of koan study.

Old Zen is the way of nothingness, the way of having a good time.

The way of nothingness is the way of Zen. It is just a term. The contemplation of nothingness or everythingness is where everything starts.

Everything has a nothingness. On the other side of physical reality, there is another world, and in that world, everything is something else.

With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.

Revolution calls my name. I will soon dwell in nothingness, and my name will be in the Pantheon of history.

Pretended to see nothing in the old woman's taunts. Very hard to imagine nothingness.

All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.

But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abyss of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it.

I can't understand nothingness. I can't understand it and I can't imagine it.