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• But I just don't think it's an abyss of nothingness [after death] and that we fall off and that our journey stops. I think it's circular and we go and we go and we go. I know that there are civilizations that I think are way more sophisticated than we are and I think more sophisticated civilizations lived before us.

  Halle Berry

  Fall, Journey, Thinking

  "Tom Hanks, Halle Berry Interview, Cloud Atlas". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• If you go down in history, don't take it too seriously because time will come and there will even be no more history, just nothingness!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ifs

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• Never let success hide its emptiness from you, achievement its nothingness, toil its desolation. And so...keep alive the incentive to push on further, that pain in the soul which drives us beyond ourselves...Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - your destiny - are here and now.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Dream, Pain, Past

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

  Baltasar Gracian

  Revenge, Dust, Oblivion

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• Each religion is a brave guess at the authorship of Hamlet. Yet, as far as the play goes, does it make any difference whether Shakespeare or Bacon wrote it? Would it make any difference to the actors if their parts happened out of nothingness, if they found themselves acting on the stage because of some gross and unpardonable accident? Would it make any difference if the playwright gave them the lines or whether they composed them themselves, so long as the lines were properly spoken? Would it make any difference to the characters if 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' was really a dream?

  Lewis Mumford

  God, Dream, Character

  "My Works and Days". Book by Lewis Mumford. Chapter 2, 1979.

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• When human beings are regarded as moral beings, sex, instead of being enthroned upon the summit, administering upon rights and responsibilities, sinks into insignificance and nothingness. My doctrine then is, that whatever it is morally right for man to do, it is morally right for woman to do. Our duties originate, not from difference of sex, but from the diversity of our relations in life, the various gifts and talents committed to our care, and the different eras in which we live.

  Angelina Grimke

  Sex, Responsibility, Men

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• The world wasn't created. It is created anew at every moment by mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, World, Moments

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• 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.

  Ed Asner

  Athlete, Years, Hot

  Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.

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• But a problem occurs about nothing. For that from which something is made is a cause of the thing made from it; and, necessarily,every cause contributes some assistance to the effect's existence.

  Anselm of Canterbury

  Causes, Problem, Made

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• The mandalas were meant to be objects of contemplation, aids to meditation, their proportions magically balanced to purify and calm the mind. To stare at a mandala was to experience, if only briefly, the nothingness that is at the heart of enlightenment.

  Douglas Preston

  Heart, Meditation, Mind

  Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child (2010). “The Wheel of Darkness: An Agent Pendergast Novel”, p.124, Hachette UK

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• Philosophy gets on my nerves. If we analyze the ultimate ground of everything, then everything finally falls into nothingness. But I have decided to resume my lectures again and look the Hydra of doubt straight into the eye, and it be quite ominous if one values one's life.

  Ludwig Boltzmann

  Philosophy, Fall, Eye

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• 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.

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Death, Venture, Possibility

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• I have tried very hard to find meaning in what I do, but I have found instead a vast and limitless nothingness. I tried to embrace the nothingness, but it slipped through my grasp, and now there is nothing where the nothingness was. This may sound meaningful, but it isn't.

  John S. Hall

  Meaningful, May, Sound

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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• 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

  Sleep, Doe, Matter

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• Once one has kissed a cadaver's forehead, there always remains something of it on the lips, an infinite bitterness, an aftertasteof nothingness that nothing can erase.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Death, Cadavers, Bitterness

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• The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the individual in both; in the fleeting present as the sole form in which actuality exists; in the contingency and relativity of all things; in continual becoming without being; in continual desire without satisfaction; in the continual frustration of striving of which life consists. . . Time is that by virtue of which everything becomes nothingness in our hands and loses all real value.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Real, Frustration, Vanity

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• Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life is writing.

  Helene Cixous

  Writing, Meditation, Needs

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• I've never been shot, but this probably what it feels like, that second of nothingness right before the pain catches up to the bullet.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Pain, Bullets, Shots

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• 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.

  Haruki Murakami

  Ego, Intense, Abyss

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• 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?

  Cassandra Clare

  Who Cares, World, Vanishing

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.626, Simon and Schuster

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• Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will. Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race. What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.

  Marquis de Sade

  War, Men, Race

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• Today I might lose both of them. I try to imagine a world where both Gale's and Peeta's voices have ceased. Hands stilled. Eyes unblinking. I'm standing over their bodies, having a last look, leaving the room where they lie. But when I open the door to step out into the world, there's only a tremendous void. A pale grey nothingness that is all my future holds.

  Suzanne Collins

  Lying, Eye, Doors

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.637, Scholastic UK

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• It is this nothingness (in solitude) that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful that everything in me wants to run to my friends, my work, and my distractions so that I can forget my nothingness and make myself believe that I am worth something. The task is to persevere in my solitude, to stay in my cell until all my seductive visitors get tired of pounding on my door and leave me alone. The wisdom of the desert is that the confrontation with our own frightening nothingness forces us to surrender ourselves totally and unconditionally to the Lord Jesus Christ.

  Henri Nouwen

  Running, Jesus, Believe

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• Fashion: a barricade behind which men hide their nothingness.

  Kin Hubbard

  Fashion, Men, Barricades

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• What every artist should try to prevent is the car, in which is our civilized life, plunging over the side of the precipice -- the exhibitionist extremist promoter driving the whole bag of tricks into a nihilistic nothingness or zero.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Zero, Artist, Car

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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