Nothingness Quotes - Page 14

• [The Ghost Team] is basically about people who have nothing to do, and so they do something really silly and stupid. It's about the nature of nothingness, how people deal with that, and how sometimes going down a rabbit hole of your beliefs can put you in some serious trouble. It can also free up a side of you that has been repressed. At the end of the film, they're all disappointed, but they're also jazzed that they got to know each other.

  David Krumholtz

  Team, Stupid, Silly

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fall, Masters, Abyss

  "The Lord of the Rings".

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• Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.

  May Sarton

  Poverty, Rich

  May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1973”, p.156, Open Road Media

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• A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?

  Margaret Atwood

  Food, Space, Doe

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.310, Anchor

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• The one thing I can tell you is that you wont survive for yourself. I know because I would never have come this far. A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it into being and coax it along with words of love. Offer it each phantom crumb and shield it from harm with your body. As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Heart, Together, Would Be

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.49, Vintage

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• What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a different kind of nothingness? Because there might be knowledge then. Memory.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Memories, Mean, Doe

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• In the eye of the universe, man is nothing! And man's hardest job is to be able to get rid of this nothingness!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Jobs, Eye, Men

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• 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.

  Farrah Abraham

  Rushing, Negative, Emotion

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• 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.

  Fritz Leiber

  Devil, Wonder, Wealth

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “The Wanderer”, p.341, Open Road Media

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• Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting their food. Gone are the civilized beings who talk of manners and journeys and letters; in their places are two bodies straining to give birth to a burst of inhuman pleasure followed by a great, floating nothingness. An explosion of life followed by death - in this we live, and in this we foreshadow our own sweet deaths.

  Margaret George

  Sweet, Journey, Self

  Margaret George (2011). “The Memoirs of Cleopatra”, p.262, Pan Macmillan

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• Black does not signify the darkness related to death or nothingness, but a darkness that combines everything and holds the possibility of creation, a temporary death that embraces rebirth.

  Hyon Gyon

  Darkness, Black, Rebirth

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• Everest silences you...when you come down, nothing seems worth saying, nothing at all. You find the nothingness wrapping you up, like a sound. Non-being. You can't keep it up, of course. the world rushes in soon enough. What shuts you up is, I think, the sight you've had of perfection: why speak if you can't manage perfect thoughts, perfect sentences? It feels like a betrayal of what you've been through. But it fades; you accept that certain compromises, closures, are required if you're to continue.

  Salman Rushdie

  Betrayal, Thinking, Sight

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• 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.

  Abraham Verghese

  Believe, Past, Black

  "Cutting for Stone". Book by Abraham Verghese, February 2009.

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• I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness, to death.

  John Fowles

  War, Psychosis, Historical

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

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• Know how to play the card of contempt. It is the most politic kind of revenge. For there are many of whom we should have known nothing if their distinguished opponents had taken no notice of them. There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Revenge, Taken, Should Have

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• 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.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beautiful, Winter, Voice

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “Night and Day”, p.157, Virginia Woolf

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• Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness.

  Johannes Tauler

  Sinking, Depends

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• This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle the narration of those unbridled passions, stretching over many years, and at times making their effect felt on several generations? We’re a long way from Wuthering Heights, to say the least. The novel form is not conceived for depicting indifference or nothingness; a flatter, more terse, and dreary discourse would need to be invented.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Passion, Years, Long

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• As I stood alone and forsaken, and the power of the sea and the battle of the elements reminded me of my own nothingness, and on the other hand, the sure flight of the birds recalled the words spoken by Christ: Not a sparrow shall fall on the ground without your Father: then, all at once, I felt how great and how small I was; then did those two mighty forces, pride and humility, happily unite in friendship.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Father, Fall, Humility

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• Death is an endless retirement with a pension of nothingness.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Retirement, Endless, Pension

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• There are moments of oneness with the Beloved, absolutely ecstasy and bliss. That is nothingness. And this nothingness loves you, responds to you, fulfills you utterly and yet there is nothing there. You flow out like a river without diminishing. This is the great mystical experience, the great ecstasy.

  Irina Tweedie

  Love You, Mystical Experiences, Oneness

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• 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.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Fate, Men, Unjust

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.263, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  James Lovegrove

  Stars, Lasts, Cosmos

  James Lovegrove (2009). “The Age of Ra: Special Edition”, p.136, Solaris

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• The sand looked so beautiful then, so many little individual grains in the light of the night, giving the watcher the childhood feeling of infinite things finally understood, the humiliating feeling of the watcher's nothingness.

  Ayi Kwei Armah

  Beautiful, Night, Light

  Ayi Kwei Armah (1988). “The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born”, p.72, Heinemann

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• You will get to your maturity quickly if you stay in the nothingness.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Maturity, Ifs

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