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• Error tills its own barren soil and buries itself in the ground, since ground and dust stand for nothingness.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Errors, Dust, Soil

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.633, Jazzybee Verlag

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• 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

  Atheist, Heaven, Religion

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• It is claimed that the United States gets the cleanest and purest tea in the market, and certainly it is too good to warrant the nervous apprehension which strains and dilutes it into nothingness. The English do not strain their tea in the fervid fashion we do. They like to see a few leaves dawdling about the cup. They like to know what they are drinking.

  Agnes Repplier

  Fashion, Drinking, Tea

  Agnes Repplier (1932). “To Think of Tea!”

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• Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.

  Virginia Woolf

  Fall, Doors, Feet

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.30, Virginia Woolf

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• He: What’s the matter with you? Me: Nothing. Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly numbing my soul. Caught by nothing, saying nothing, nothingness becomes me. When I am nothing they will say surprised in the way that they are forever surprised, "but there was nothing the matter with her.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Forever, Soul, Matter

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• We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars.

  Henry Miller

  Stars, Dancing, Flesh

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.

  Eric Hoffer

  Reality, Men, Despair

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity.

  Yves Klein

  Blue, Profound, Firsts

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• 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.

  Lucy Stone

  Wall, Clothes, Atheism

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• A stray fact: insects are not drawn to candle flames, they are drawn to the light on the far side of the flame, they go into the flame and sizzle to nothingness because they're so eager to get to the light on the other side.

  Michael Cunningham

  Light, Flames, Facts

  Michael Cunningham (2010). “By Nightfall: A Novel”, p.207, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• I wish I could close my eyes and be blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff drifting off on the wind. But his hands keep pulling me back: into the alley, and Portland, and a world that has suddenly stopped making sense.

  Lauren Oliver

  Eye, Drifting Off, Dust

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.259, Hachette UK

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• This is the personal side of things. When I started going through some of those transitions in my mind, just as a human being versus as an artist, I tried to... Essentially, I did this thing called Landmark Forum. It's three days of mind-expanding, existential philosophy, like Jean-Paul Sartre for everyday living. In existential philosophy they talk about "Being and Nothingness," this idea of not putting meaning onto things, and that in that way you live more purely. In other words, we form reality from these stories that we make up about our lives.

  Fernando Mastrangelo

  Philosophy, Artist, Reality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there, the lepers, the thugs, and above all, the ennui, the monotony of faces, streets, legs, houses, skyscrapers, meals, posters, jobs, crimes, loves... A whole city erected over a hollow pit of nothingness. Meaningless. Absolute meaningless.

  Henry Miller

  Jobs, New York, Thug

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• 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.

  Athol Fugard

  Men, Void, Danger

  Athol Fugard (2009). “Tsotsi”, p.38, Canongate Books

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• 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.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Betrayal, Thinking, People

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• She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.

  Fay Weldon

  Running, Sibling, Order

  Fay Weldon (1997). “Worst Fears”, p.130, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Nothingness is the basis of everything.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Bases

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• 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.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Horizon, Crowds, May

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• For what we don't realize today is just what the typical self of every previous stage failed likewise to comprehend: this is not the highest and greatest mode of consciousness which can be attained - there lie ahead the realms of the superconscious and the pitiful ego, by comparison, is as a speck of nothingness.

  Ken Wilber

  Lying, Self, Ego

  Ken Wilber (1999). “The Collected Works of Ken Wilber: The Atman Project ; Up from Eden”, Shambhala Publications

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• All that is not thought is pure nothingness; since we can think only thoughts, and all the words we use to speak of things can express only thoughts, to say there is something other than thought is therefore an affirmation which can have no meaning.

  Henri Poincare

  Thinking, Use, Affirmation

  "The Value of Science". Book by Henri Poincaré, translated by George Bruce Halsted. Chapter 11: "Science and Reality", 1907.

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• Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joys, But the vast shipwreck of my life's esteems; And e'en the dearest--that I love the best-- Are strange--nay, rather stranger than the rest.

  John Clare

  Dream, Sea, Joy

  John Clare (1965). “Selected poems”

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• From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure. If he be an imaginative boy a door is torn open and for the first time he looks out upon the world, seeing, as though they marched in procession before him, the countless figures of men who before his time have come out of nothingness into the world, lived their lives and again disappeared into nothingness. The sadness of sophistication has come to the boy.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Sadness, Boys, Men

  Sherwood Anderson (1995). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.145, Courier Corporation

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• I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe the nothingness and purity of it. "Is there a certain and definite teaching to be given to all living creatures?" was the question probably asked to beetle browed snowy Dipankara, and his answer was the roaring silence of the diamond.

  Jack Kerouac

  Mother, Teaching, Silence

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.157, Penguin

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• I think every collection is always a move forward. It's the same work - the process is always the same. The interesting thing is to try to achieve a certain nothingness.

  Tomas Maier

  Moving, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Many people ask why a writer commits suicide. But I think that people who ask don't know the vanity and the nothingness of writing. I think it is very usual and natural for a writer to commit suicide, because in order to keep on writing he must be a very strong person.

  Kobo Abe

  Suicide, Strong, Writing

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