273 Quotes About Nothingness

A banquet hall deserted, after the revelry, all the guests have left and gone their ways. And the table, with overturned glasses, crumbled napkins, bread crumbs, dirty knives and forks, lies empty. And the laughter echoes only in one’s mind… And then the echo goes, the memory, the traces are all gone.

A scholar came to me the other day and asked - how can I be a human being? I replied - by living as nothing and calling everyone our own.

I'm going to die one day. And that fact alone should force me to live my life to the fullest. But I'm the opposite way around. I want to die because I am consistently eaten up by nothingness.

You are actually in search of nothing-and when you realize this you are free.

There is no void if you don't try to fill it.

Nothingness! To accept the great nothingness of life seemed to be the one end of living. All the many busy and important little things that make up the grand sum-total of nothingness!

There’s nothing under your bed. Nothing in your closet. Nothing waiting in the hall. You are surrounded by nothing. You cannot escape it.

And yet I was aware of the nothingness. I was awake in the sleep, somehow. I felt good. Almost happy.

Sometimes happiness comes not from what happens but from what doesn’t.