If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.
Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.
If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
It's like an athlete. He has a string of hot years, and then he fades into nothingness. The actor doesn't necessarily fade into nothingness. After his hot years, he fades into a different category.
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
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.
Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.