It was strange to have those papers signed. Like any big project or crisis that takes every waking and non-waking moment in your life, it was odd to have it concluded. A move, a college...

Seventy years of life is nothing in front of a single day of death

This book is written in a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance.

I became a nightangle in the darkness ❤ ❤

I know there’s no heaven. I know it all turns to nothingness. But I fear there will be some remnant of me left within that void. Left conscious by some random fluke. Something that will...

Perfection’s stuck.

You will either have value, or be grist for the mill — nothing more.

What was after the universe?Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?

History is the nothing people write about a nothing.

Quand il mangeait des babas ou des éclairs, il se sentait coupable jusqu’à l’ me, à cause de la guerre, à cause des vendeuses dont les maris ou les amants se trouvaient sans doute quelque...

Like the medieval cartographers of Europe, who felt one would fall into endless space at the edges of the oceans of their maps, we fear the presumed nothingness of no-self. Fortunately, there have been many...

Czekam, czekam.Obrazy przechodzą jeden za drugim, nie utrwaliły się mocno – zaledwie cienie i wspomnienia.Nicość, nicość.Niepokój mój wzrasta.Przerażające uczucie obojętności chwyta mnie nagle. Nie mogę znaleźć sobie miejsca, jestem stąd wykluczony; jakkolwiek błagam i wysilam...

Go to God with your coal, and He will set them to blazing fire.

Breath (from the book Blue Bridge)Whispering to myselfWith every step I take,Trying out names, for I knowThere is something yet to be called …..I know it, something up aheadJust around the bendOr over the rise...

He’s a real nowhere man,Sitting in his Nowhere Land,Making all his nowhere plansfor nobody.Doesn’t have a point of view,Knows not where he’s going to,Isn’t he a bit like you and me?

I preach darkness. I don’t inspire hope—only shadows. It’s up to you to find the light in my words.

I am a thin layer of all those beings on [samadhi level] 3, mingling, connected with one another in a spherical surface around the whole known universe. Our “backs” are to the void. We are...

What is next to ecstasy?Pain.What is next to pain?Nothingness.What is next to nothingness?Hell.

Why should anything exist at all, you might ask?Existence didn’t just spring out of nothing whatsoever. Even if there was a time of No-Thingness, then there must have been an inherent or precursory realm of...

Nothingness lies in the heart of everything.

In the recumbence of depression, your information-gathering system collates its intelligence and reports to you these facts: (1) there is nothing to do; (2) there is nowhere to go; (3) there is nothing to be;...

Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward whatlooks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.

Jesus and Satan appear here as repre sentatives of two opposite principles. Satan is the representative of material consumption and of power over nature and Man. Jesus is the representative of being, and of the...

But I don’t want to write my own fiction,’ Cath said, as emphatically as she could. ‘I don’t want to write my own characters or my own worlds — I don’t care about them. ....

I don’t know how to describe the sound of a world crashing. Maybe there is no sound, just a great emptiness, an enveloping sorrow, a creeping nothingness that coils itself around you like a stiff...

Home is where you can go and rest and be nothing

His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme.

You see, one of the best things about reading is that you’ll always have something to think about when you’re not reading.

If I have learned one thing in the years of my existence, one nugget of wisdom from having lived in the midst of disputations over faith and the nature of the world, it is that...

There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the...

Don’t you know what god is? God is everything and God is nothing; for the perfection created by man cannot be anything other than nothing. They decided to give a name to nothingness, and thereby...

He’s like a hero come back from thewar, a poor maimed bastard living out the reality of his dreams.Wherever he sits himself the chair collapses; whatever door heenters the room is empty: whatever he puts...

The more severely he struggles to hold on to the primal face-to-face relation with God, the more tenuous this becomes, until in the end the relation to God Himself threatens to become a relation to...

Don’t ever underestimate the value and power of doing nothing sometime.

The type of nothing from which something can arise is truly something.

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood. The...

All of everything came into existence simply because it wanted to be. The big bang wasn’t so much a big bang as a hasty dash toward an opportunity to trade nothingness for somethingness. The main...

Without knowing nothing (nothingness) how can we know everything?

hasn’t got a damn thing to do with anything, ‘cause all it has to do with is nothing. Nothingness. Okay? It doesn’t develop the mind, it dissolves the mind. Self-improvement? Forget it, baby. It erases...

[…][I]f you adapted too much in order to deal with them, you ran the risk of forgetting who you were and you could end up being neither and nothing.

Without love everything can be nothing. Does that make me want to love? No. For me, Ignorance is still better than martyrdom.

Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something and give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing.

It’s the poet we love in Caeiro, not the philosopher. What we really get from these poems is a childlike sense of life, with all the direct materiality of the child’s mind, and all the...

All three explanations—eternal life, reincarnation, and nothingness—are descriptions of the same reality.

Let me sleep,” he said, and shut the door; it clicked in her face and she felt animal terror – this was what she feared most in life: the clicking shut of a man’s door...

I began to long, as I had before, for some special smell, some special music that would fill me, lift me up and carry me away, float me off the rocks of my body and...

Nothing happened. Nothing continued to happen. More Nothing. The Return of Nothing. Son of Nothing. Nothing Rides Again. Nothing and Abbot and Costello meet the Wolfman…

Nothing on earth is as unbearable as dealing with other people if you are a person who lacks compassion and understanding.

I can hardly breathe, and my whole body wants to shrink into a corner. It’s so much easier to just believe in reincarnation. You might be reborn as something awful, but at least you can...

A personal brand should not be elevated if there is nothing underneath the label.