Quotes with nothingness

  • One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
  • To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.
  • The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.

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  • George Bernard Shaw All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.
    The Adventures Of Black Girl in Her Search for God 8
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Woody Allen Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Bede Griffiths God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.
    Bede Griffiths
    British-born priest and Benedictine monk (1906 - 1993)
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They are nomads going from one rooming house to another, looking for a toilet that functions.
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • Cesare Pavese One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • John Updike Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Norman Mailer The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Angela Carter To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.
    Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
    French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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