Nothingness Quotes

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  To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen" by Elbert Hubbard, (p. 370), 1898.

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• Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.

  Hugh Jackman

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Sleep

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. June 2006.

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• In the Lotus Sutra, it is said everything is emptiness - this world is empty, hell is empty, heaven is empty, God is empty, everything is emptiness. Emptiness is the nature of all things, nothingness, so be attuned to nothingness and you will achieve.

  Rajneesh

  Heaven, Lotuses, World

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• Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.

  Adyashanti

  Infinite, Empty, Boxes

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• Among the great things which are found among us the existence of Nothing is the greatest.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Spiritual, Mindfulness, Found

  "The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci".

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• We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Stars, Dust

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Fun, Type

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• Touch your inner space, which is nothingness, as silent and empty as the sky; it is your inner sky. Once you settle down in your inner sky, you have come home, and a great maturity arises in your actions, in your behavior. Then whatever you do has grace in it. Then whatever you do is a poetry in itself. You live poetry; your walking becomes dancing, your silence becomes music.

  Rajneesh

  Home, Maturity, Space

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• When you go into the space of nothingness, everything becomes known.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Space, Meditation

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• Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Home, Existence, Exile

  "Tears and Saints". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1937.

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

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Consciousness, Conscious

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.225, Open Road Media

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• In nothingness, there is everything, energy. The ending is a beginning.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Energy

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• Nothing happens until something moves.

  Albert Einstein

  Powerful, Moving, Inspiration

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• God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.

  Paul Valery

  Spiritual, Loneliness, Drinking

  "Mauvaises Pensées et Autres". Book by Paul Valery, 1941.

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• Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.

  Helen Clark MacInnes

  Positive, Attitude, Work

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• For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.

  Blaise Pascal

  Life, Time, Nature

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, (Section II: The Misery of Man without God), 1669.

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• God makes all chosen souls pass through a fearful time of poverty, misery, and nothingness. He desires to destroy in them gradually all the help and confidence they derive from themselves so that He may be their sole source of support, their confidence, their hope, their only resource.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Encouragement, Religious, Support

  Jean Pierre de Caussade (2011). “Abandonment to Divine Providence”, p.349, Ignatius Press

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• But nothing is more opaque
  than absolute transparency.

  Margaret Atwood

  Opaque, Transparency, Absolutes

  Margaret Atwood (2015). “Morning in the Burned House”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have only the idea I have made of myself to sustain me on oceans of nothingness

  Henry de Montherlant

  Ocean, Ideas, Made

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• It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Abuse, Doubt, Done

  Preface to "Le Petit Almanach de nos Grands Hommes", 1788.

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• I know there's no heaven. I know it all turns to nothingness. But I fear there will be some remnant of me left within that void. Left conscious by some random fluke. Something that will scream out for this. That one speck of my soul will still exist and be left trapped and wanting. For you. For the light. For anything.

  Drew Magary

  Light, Heaven, Soul

  Drew Magary (2011). “The Postmortal: A Novel”, p.342, Penguin

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• Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Passing Away, Existence, Non Existence

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IV, 4,

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• Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Together, Turns

  William Shakespeare (1843). “Merchant of Venice”, p.43

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• My whole effort is to help you to disappear. My whole effort is to help you to be so empty: anatta - non-being. Because if you are, you will remain in trouble. If you are, you will remain limited. If you are, there will be a definition to your being - and you will never be overflowing. Only emptiness can be overflowing, only emptiness can be at ease. Only emptiness can be life abundant. To be, the way passes through non-being. If you really want to be, you will have to drop all concepts of your being. You will have to disappear, by and by. You will have to melt into nothingness.

  Rajneesh

  Effort, Way, Ease

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• Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing.

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Born

  "The Satires". Book by Aulus Persius Flaccus, I, 111. 83,

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