273 Quotes About Nothingness



  • Author Omar Khayyám
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    Khayyám, who stitched the tents of science,Has fallen in grief's furnace and been suddenly burned,The shears of Fate have cut the tent ropes of his life,And the broker of Hope has sold him for nothing!

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  • Author Maggie Nelson
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    But is there really such a thing as nothing, as nothingness? I don't now. I know we're still here, who knows for how long, ablaze with our care, its ongoing song.

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  • Author Beatrice Harraden
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    For some natures learn with greater difficulty and after greater delay than others, that the real importances of our existence are the nothingnesses of every-day life, the nothingnesses which the philosopher in his study, reasoning about and analyzing human character, is apt to overlook; but which, nevertheless, make him and everyone else more of a human reality and less of an abstraction.

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