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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
John Keats
Joy
Will
Beauty
Nothingness
Increases
Never
Pass
Forever
Loveliness
Thing
Everything that's created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.
Wayne Dyer
Silence
Thoughts
Creativity
Words
Stillness
Nothingness
Everything
Out
Some
Emerge
Emerged
Void
Come
Emptiness
Very
Essence
Created
Requires
Your
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
Mahatma Gandhi
Service
Joy
Before
Nothingness
Other
Pleasures
Possessions
Neither
Spirit
Rendered
Without
Nor
Which
Helps
Servant
Pale
Served
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.
Bede Griffiths
Life
God
Me
Knowledge
Made
My Life
Own
Nothingness
Everything
Out
Easter
See
Brought
My Own
Could
Had
Knees
Longer
Been
Acknowledge
Centre
Therefore
Reborn
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
Samuel Beckett
Silence
Word
Nothingness
Every
Unnecessary
Like
Stain
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.
Hugh Jackman
Life
Best
You
Appreciation
Better
Mind
Rest
Nothingness
Meditation
Everything
About
Pursuit
Had
Sharpens
Like
Fresh
Ultimate
Surroundings
Than
Your
Ever
Keeps
Sleep
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
Cesare Pavese
Love
Woman
Nothingness
Our
Oneself
Misery
Vulnerability
Because
Does
Reveals
Any
Us
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.
E. M. Forster
Death
People
Own
Nothing
Nothingness
Our
Shall
Beyond
Well
Deaths
Differ
Even
Lives
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
John Updike
Life
Religion
Nothingness
Jobs
Enables
Get
Us
Ignore
The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.
Pope John XXIII
Good
Me
Feelings
Nothingness
Always
Good Company
Company
Kept
It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there.
Robert M. Pirsig
Good
You
Nothingness
Lying
About
No-One
Talk
Knows
Because
Always
Zen
I'm happy to be reminded that an ordinary day full of nothing but nothingness can make you feel like you've won the lottery.
Susan Orlean
Day
You
Happy
Nothing
Nothingness
Reminded
Feel
Like
Make
Lottery
Won
Ordinary
Full
The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.
Ang Lee
Life
Truth
You
Worth
Illusion
Nothing
Nothingness
Immaterial
Way
More
Pursuing
Principle
Material
Prove
Source
Essence
Working
Actually
Things
To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.
Angela Carter
Future
Nothingness
Say
Those
Must
Hopes
Hypothesis
Contend
Pin
Which
Your
Now
Here
I thought that we all were afraid of death, but I've talked to my wife and other people, and they're not afraid of death the way I am. I find that really confusing. I don't like the idea of nothingness - that's terrifying to me.
Dan Trachtenberg
Death
Me
People
Wife
Thought
Nothingness
Other
Way
Find
Idea
Like
Talked
Terrifying
Am
Were
Afraid
Confusing
Really
I was obsessed with not knowing what happened after you were dead. And I sat or kneeled for a whole day with my head against the wall, trying to figure it out. But I couldn't, and I just said, 'Okay.' And then it was nothingness.
Donald Sutherland
Day
You
Not Knowing
Nothingness
Okay
Out
Head
Obsessed
Dead
Knowing
Said
Were
Wall
Trying
Just
After
Happened
Against
Then
Figure
Sat
Whole
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.
Ed Asner
Nothingness
String
Athlete
Fade
He
Fades
Hot
Like
Category
His
Years
Different
After
Then
Actor
Necessarily
The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.
Emil Cioran
Nothingness
Release
Catastrophic
Disaster
Most
Without
Capital
Phenomenon
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.
Frances Farmer
God
Time
Nothingness
Seemed
He
Until
Him
Became
Wondered
After
Little
Less
Useless
Waste
Waste Of Time
Why
Thing
I recall waking to the realisation that I was the best table tennis player under 17 in north Manchester and parts of Bury. The satisfaction lasted for half an hour before I saw into the nothingness of things.
Howard Jacobson
Best
Half
Before
Nothingness
Lasted
Saw
Table
Tennis
Tennis Player
Hour
Parts
Waking
North
Manchester
Realisation
Bury
Satisfaction
Recall
Things
Player
There's a stage where you're desperate to get a job, and you're waving your hands in a sea of nothingness, going, 'Please, please, please! I'm over here - give me a job!'
Joel Edgerton
Me
You
Desperate
Job
Stage
Nothingness
Please
Waving
Give
Give Me
Over
Get
Hands
Going
Where
Your
Sea
Here
Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.
Kim Elizabeth
Life
Death
You
Thought
Nothing
Nothingness
Dreadful
More
Only
Than
May
Greet
Eternal
Profound
Sometimes I liken the comedian's lifestyle a little bit to a firefighter's in the sense that there's a lot of waiting and a lot of nothingness. And then there are moments of urgent firefighting.
Pete Holmes
Waiting
Sometimes
Sense
Nothingness
Bit
Lifestyle
Firefighter
Comedian
Lot
Little
Little Bit
Urgent
Then
Moments
When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability.
Robert Lanza
You
Animal
Smell
Nothingness
Dissolve
Waves
Bits
Perceive
Seemingly
Kitchen
Longer
Ticking
Sounds
Clock
Discrete
Chicken
Probability
Senses
Dishwasher
Room
Turn
Next
Your
If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
Tadao Ando
You
People
Nothingness
Give
Achieved
Ponder
Nothingness is not nothing at all, so it is physical, but not in the sense of constant presence. Nothingness is disturbing. It is there in a mind-independent sense; it is part of what is given.
Timothy Morton
Sense
Nothing
Nothingness
Constant
Physical
Disturbing
Given
Part
Presence
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