Quotes about Nothingness
The center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth.
- Thomas Merton
For backward or forward, eternity is the same; already have we been the nothing we dread to be.
- Herman Melville
The communion rail is a place of exchange. They give time and receive eternity, they give self-denial and receive love, they give nothingness, and receive all.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.
- Ayn Rand
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
- Samuel Beckett
If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now
- CS Lewis
If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.
- RC Sproul
God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Time is that by virtue of which everything becomes nothingness in our hands and loses all real value.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The most astonishing observation one makes today is that people surrender everything in the face of nothingness: their own judgment, their humanity, their neighbors. Where this fear is exploited without scruple, there are no limits to what can be achieved.[130]
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
That we may merge into the deep and dazzling darkness, vanish into it, dissolve in it forever in an unbelievable bliss beyond imagination, for absolute nothingness represents absolute bliss.
- Gregory of Nyssa