Quotes: Nothingness

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.

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was… nothingness.

Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.