Nothingness Quotes - Page 17

• This is why Caliban was a punishment. I realize it now - it's a beautiful, perfect world of nothingness. No connection, no longing, no . . . love. A world we're trapped in until we're needed here, a world we're condemned to while everyone we might care about forgets us.

  Jackson Pearce

  Beautiful, Punishment, Perfect

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• Everything comes out of nothingness and goes back into nothingness. Hence there is no need for attachment, because attachment will bring misery. Soon it will be gone. The flower that has blossomed in the morning, by the evening will be gone. Don't get attached; otherwise in the evening there will be misery. Then there will be tears, then you will miss the flower. Enjoy while it is. But remember, it has come out of nothing, and it will go back to nothing. And the same is true about everything, even about people.

  Rajneesh

  Morning, Flower, Attachment

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• Quietly, like a night bird, floating, soaring, wingless. We glide from shore to shore, curving and falling but not quite touching; Earth: a distant memory seen in an instant of repose, crescent shaped, ethereal, beautiful, I wonder which part is home, but I know it doesn't matter... the bond is there in my mind and memory; Earth: a small, bubbly balloon hanging delicately in the nothingness of space.

  Alfred Worden

  Beautiful, Memories, Fall

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• At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction . . . and therefore he turns away from all those problems and abysses which might recall to him his own nothingness.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Men, Self, Might

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• What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true? I could think of nothing. And, slowly, it was upon exactly that nothingness that my mind began to dwell, that constant sense of wanting without having, of being hated without reason.

  Richard Wright

  Dream, Thinking, Justice

  Richard Wright (2010). “American Hunger”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Let us protect our children; and let us not allow them to grow up into emptiness and nothingness, to the avoidance of good hard work, to introspection and analysis without deeds, or to mechanical actions without thought and consideration. Let us steer them away from the harmful chase after material things and the damaging passion for distractions... Let us educate them to stand with their feet rooted in God's earth, but with their heads reaching even into heaven, there to behold truth.

  Friedrich Frobel

  Children, Growing Up, Hard Work

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• Excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness

  Barack Obama

  Bridges, Tools, Excuse

  "Obama to new grads: 'No time for excuses'" by Mark Morgenstein, www.cnn.com. May 19, 2013.

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• Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Art, Together, Life Is

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• We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the inconceivable nothingness.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Life, Vanishing, Lawyer

  "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, (1989 - 90).

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• I like the sort of 'nothingness' of the jeans and the T-shirt. I feel that's about as close as I can get to the future because it seems like something so old that will always be, so I feel it's a safe bet for the future.

  Marc Jacobs

  Jeans, Safe, T Shirt

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• Hip-hop is a beautiful culture. It's inspirational, because it's a culture of survivors. You can create beauty out of nothingness.

  Mos Def

  Beautiful, Hip Hop, Survivor

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• Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.

  Mark Strand

  Ends, Describing

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• As if to build a fence around the fatal emptiness inside her, she had to create a sunny person that she became. But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abbys of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it. Though she tried to forget it, the nothingness would visit her periodically - on a lonely rainy afternoon, or at dawn when she woke up from a nightmare. What she needed at such times was to be held by someone, anyone.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Ego, Dawn

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• I think there will be a reaction - a reaction will set in against this communal dissociation. You know, man doesn't stand forever, his nullification. Once, there will be a reaction, and I see it setting in, you know, when I think of my patients, they all seek their own existence and to assure their existence against that complete atomization into nothingness or into meaninglessness. Man cannot stand a meaningless life.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Thinking, Forever

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• That is why I have called feminism nihilism. It says that being a woman is nothing definite and that the duty of women is to advance that nothingness as a cause.

  Harvey Mansfield

  Feminism, Nihilism, Causes

  Harvey Claflin Mansfield (2007). “Manliness”, p.147, Yale University Press

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• Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness

  Oswald Spengler

  Transition, Cosmic, Tension

  Oswald Spengler, Charles Francis Atkinson (1961). “The Decline of the West...: Perspectives of world-history”

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• 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?

  Walter Wykes

  Memories, What If, Mind

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Way, Good Times, Introduction

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• They say martyrdom is the highest rank a believer can achieve! Do not believe in this! The highest rank is the life itself, it is the existence itself! There is no rank in death, but only nothingness! Rank exists only in life! Stick to the life, stay away from death! Neither kill nor die!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Believe, Sticks

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• The hypothesis is pretty; its only fault is that it is neither demonstrated nor demonstrable. Who does not see that this is purely arbitrary fiction that puts nothingness as existing and proposes nothing more than simple noncontradiciton?

  Galileo Galilei

  Simple, Thinking, Doe

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• Remember, grab you're future with both hands and mold it into what you want it to be. It's the determined, who create the life they want, while the idle sit by and watch it fade away into nothingness. The future belongs to the exceptional individuals, who can see the light of the future, at the end of the tunnel.

  James D. Watson

  Motivational, Hands, Tunnels

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• It's a fantastic thing that from moment to the next moment if God were to have stopped for a split second we would disintegrate into nothingness. And the incredible thing is that God breaths this breath and keeps each of us in existence, in being, even when we chose to reject God. Now if I had that kind of power I would snuff you out! But God doesn't.

  Desmond Tutu

  Snuff, Splits, Next

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Politician, Happens

  Source: www.economist.com

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• We're a culture more than ever that wants proof of everything, we want things fast, and someone sends you an email, you want to answer in five minutes. We have to allow ourselves nothingness, in our relationships too.

  Patti Smith

  Email, Culture, Answers

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• There is no self, yet we all exist. All phenomena are "empty," yet they have Buddha nature.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Empty, Buddha Nature

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