In a world that often celebrates accumulation and achievement, the concept of embracing nothingness might seem counterintuitive. Yet, there's profound wisdom in finding comfort within the void, discovering meaning in simplicity, and welcoming the peace that comes from letting go. This collection of 44 quotes invites you to explore the depth and richness that can be found in embracing nothingness. Through the insights of thinkers, poets, and philosophers, gain a new perspective on the beauty of emptiness and the transformative power it can hold in our lives. Whether you seek serenity, inspiration, or a clearer understanding of self, these quotes are sure to enlighten and provoke thoughtful reflection.
1. “What have I become?My sweetest friend; everyone I know goes away in the end.And you could have it all:my empire of dirt.I will let you down.I will make you hurt.” - Nine Inch Nails
2. “I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.” - Oscar Wilde
3. “it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horseor that the hummingbird is so seldomseenor that we are too senseless to goinsane.coffee. give us more of that NOTHINGcoffee.” - Charles Bukowski
4. “...he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this stuff going on inside you?" I said, "I don't know how you can walk down the street with nothing going on inside you.” - Nelson Algren
5. “Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.” - Ernest Hemingway
6. “To do nothing is the way to be nothing.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne
7. “For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person...” - Ray Bradbury
8. “Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building—and then they move on. Whereas in all the other art forms, take William Blake, everything that came to that paper never existed before. It’s the idea of alchemy, of making something from nothing.” - Duane Michals
9. “My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises and falls. But that's it. Almost nothing. Nothing born of nothing. I'd loved and been loved, but I had nothing to show. It was a singularly plain, featureless landscape. I felt like I was in a video game. A surrogate Pacman, crunching blindly through a labyrinth of dotted lines. The only certainty was my death.” - Haruki Murakami
10. “If you write a line of zeroes, it´s still nothing.” - Ayn Rand
11. “Thomas! What are you doing!" and I gestured, "I thought this was Nothing," covering myself with one of my daybooks ,and she said, "It's Something!” - Jonathan Safran Foer
12. “One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, snug little home. That's where we practical fellows'- he smiled-'are more tolerant than you intellectuals. We live and let live, and assume that things are jogging on fairly well elsewhere, and that the ordinary plain man may be trusted to look after his own affairs.” - E.M. Forster
13. “From the moment we are born, we begin to die.” - Janne Teller
14. “Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?” - Hannah More
15. “Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing.” - Jonathan Safran Foer
16. “I am nothing, and not even that.” - Chuck Palahniuk
17. “His mom always said that trust was something you earned. And it wasn't something you gave easy. Too often, it was a tool your enemies used to hurt you with. 'Give them nothing, baby. Not until you have no choice. The world is harsh and it is cold. People can be good and decent, but most of them are only out for themselves and they'll hurt anyone they can'.” - Sherrilyn Kenyon
18. “this terror then and drakness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of day, but by the aspect and the law of nature; the warp whose design we shall begin with this first principle, nothing is ever gotten out of nothing by divine power.” - Lucretius
19. “The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.” - Charles Bukowski
20. “The shadows of the room pool in the lines of our faces, draining our eyes of hue. "There's nothing left worth saying.” - Isaac Marion
21. “As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement of the heavenly bodies with more exactitude than his forerunners; but you will admit it is an absurdity to maintain the existence of Nothing.[Letter to Voltaire, 25 Nov. 1777]” - Frederick The Great
22. “Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald
23. “As pathetic as it was, she'd rather hold on to the possibility of something perfect than be hit with the reality of nothing much.” - Francine Pascal
24. “I'll stand next to that fountain and wait until the Official find me. And when she does and asks me what I'm doing, I'll tell her and everyone else that I know: t hey are giving us pieces of a real life instead of the whole thing. And I'll tell her that I don't want my life to be samples and scraps. A taste of everything but a meal of nothing.” - Ally Condie
25. “And then, a strangely comforting thought trickled through me—I had nothing, so I could do anything now. Anything I wanted. I had nothing left to lose.” - Rachel Ward
26. “Zero is the number people often feel, more so than one.” - Anthony Liccione
27. “Life is like challenge if u fail in life then u feel so bad in your whole life.like is like race don't try to break it.life gives lots of happys don't miss it.” - Tanmaya Rana
28. “Everything and nothing are the same in the Absolute.” - Dejan Stojanovic
29. “Darkness does not age; nothing is always nothing” - Dejan Stojanovic
30. “Nothing is part of everything.” - Dejan Stojanovic
31. “From nothing comes everything.” - Dejan Stojanovic
32. “When everything hurries everywhere, nothing goes anywhere.” - Dejan Stojanovic
33. “To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.” - Dejan Stojanovic
34. “Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.” - Dejan Stojanovic
35. “Around this world will I be enough?From the liquor stores, to the train stop floors, your filthy room, your drama bluesI am nothing if I'm not with you.” - Sara Quin
36. “When words don't come easy, I make do with silence and find something in nothing." ~ Strider Marcus Jones, Poet” - Strider Marcus Jones
37. “What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began? It could not be a wall; but there could be a thin line there all round everything.[...]It pained him that he did not know well what politics meant and that he did not know where the universe ended. He felt small and weak. When would he be like the fellows in poetry and rhetoric?” - James Joyce
38. “Nemalonumai nėra pats blogiausias dalykas, kuris mums gali atsitikti. Baisiausia yra, kai mums NIEKO neatsitinka!” - Richard Bach
39. “Art is a passion or it is nothing” - Robert Fry
40. “Je ne regrette rein.” - Christina Lauren
41. “History is the nothing people write about a nothing.” - William Golding
42. “But for the present I would lie there and know I didn't have to get up, and feel the holy emptiness and blessed fatigue of a saint after the dark night of the soul. For God and Nothing have a lot in common. You look either one of Them straight in the eye for a second and the immediate effect on the human constitution is the same.” - Robert Penn Warren
43. “Ma ei taha vähemat kui kõige paremat.” - Kati Murutar
44. “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...” - Neil Gaiman
