Nothingness Quotes - Page 7

• Assuming the universe came from nothing, it is empty to begin with... Only by the constant action of an agent outside the universe, such as God, could a state of nothingness be maintained. The fact that we have something is just what we would expect if there is no God.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Religion, Atheism, Agents

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• My Lord Jesus Christ, who, for the love You bear to mankind, do remain night and day in this Sacrament, full of pity and love, awaiting, calling, and receiving all who come to visit You; I believe that You are present in the Sacrament of the Altar; I adore You from the depths of my own nothingness; I thank You for the many graces You have given me, and especially for having given me Yourself in this Sacrament.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Jesus, Believe, Love You

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• Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.

  Sam Ewing

  Inspirational, Life And Love, Humorous

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• We can do nothing without prayer.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Can Do

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.37, CCEL

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• Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw] the consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all... whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.

  Janis Joplin

  Loving Someone, Silence, How You Feel

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• In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not
  there if you want to keep writing good code.

  Karl Lehenbauer

  Writing, Want, Faces

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• The bedrock of doubt is the total nothingness of death. Death is a leveler, not because everybody dies, but because nobody understands what death means.

  Northrop Frye

  Mean, Doubt, Bedrock

  Northrop Frye, Alvin A. Lee (2006). “The Great Code: The Bible and Literature”, p.251, University of Toronto Press

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• Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Lying, Heart, Worms

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Hazel Estella Barnes (1992). “Being and Nothingness”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• They crashed the front door and grabbed at a woman, though she was not running, she was not trying to escape. She was only standing, weaving from side to side, her eyes fixed upon a nothingness in the wall as if they had struck her a terrible blow upon the head. Her tongue was moving in her mouth, and her eyes seemed to be trying to remember something, and then they remembered and her tongue moved again: "Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Wall, Moving

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.17, Hamilton Books

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• I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.

  Charles Bukowski

  Ideas, Space, Interesting

  Charles Bukowski (2007). “Women”, Ecco

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• The only reality was nothingness, and over it a hypocrisy of words.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Reality, Hypocrisy, Over It

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3730, Delphi Classics

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• my youth, one time, that time I knew even through the nothingness, it was a celebration of something not to do but only know.

  Charles Bukowski

  Youth, Celebration, One Time

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• After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Death, Believe, Feelings

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• Religion used to be the opium of the people. To those suffering humiliation, pain, illness, and serfdom, religion promised the reward of an after life. But now, we are witnessing a transformation, a true opium of the people is the belief in nothingness after death, the huge solace, the huge comfort of thinking that for our betrayals, our greed, our cowardice, our murders, we are not going to be judged.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Atheist, Pain, Betrayal

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• The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Pseudo, Goes On, Today

  Slavoj Žižek (2014). “Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism”, p.170, Penguin UK

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• This swallowing up of life in nothingness, this obliteration of life by nothingness is what the emotion of malice ultimately desires. The eternal conflict between love and malice is the eternal contest between life and death. And this contest is what the complex vision reveals, as it moves from darkness to darkness.

  John Cowper Powys

  Moving, Life And Death, Darkness

  John Cowper Powys (1920). “The Complex Vision”

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• The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Light, Solitude, Principles

  "On the Heights of Despair". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1934.

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• Even a minute of dying is better than an eternity of nothingness.

  Darren Shan

  Dying, Eternity, Minutes

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• The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.

  Andre Malraux

  Stars, Powerful, Self

  "Man's Fate". Book by André Malraux, 1933.

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• Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and the undifferentiated mass, to make something of herself! But what? In the obscurity and pathlessness to take a direction! But whither? How take even one step? And yet, how stand still? This was torment indeed, to inherit the responsibility of one’s own life.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Growing Up, Responsibility, Obscurity

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)”, p.849, D. H. Lawrence

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• Don't drop him," said Peter's mother to his father. "Don't you dare drop him." She was laughing. "I will not," said his father. "I could not." For he is Peter Augustus Duchene, and he will always return to me. Again and again, Peter's father threw him up in the air. Again and again, Peter felt himself suspended in nothingness for a moment, just a moment, and then he was pulled back, returned to the sweetness of the earth and the warmth of his father's waiting arms. "See?" said his father to his mother. "Do you see how he always comes back to me?

  Kate DiCamillo

  Mother, Father, Air

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• And knowing that the only alternative to your grief is the nothingness that’s fast approaching, you try to embrace your own sorrow, to be open and empty and let it all pass through you. This is the key, you have learned – to relinquish control, to relinquish the desire for control. Even in this late drama, to try to control is to go mad. And so you do your best to let it all go.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Drama, Grief, Keys

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• In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Heart, Silence

  Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Without using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of all nothingness: you have a big tense mess and out of it comes some joy. It must be magic.

  Anne Lamott

  Joy, Magic, Forgiving

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.193, Anchor

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• We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died longe ago.Even so, a faint glimmer of that warm memory still claimed a part of my heart. And when death claim me, no doubt I would walk along by that faint light in the brief instant before being flung once again into the abyss of nothingness

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, Heart, Light

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