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Quotes having the keyword Nothingness
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.
by Angela Carter (Novelist, English , born in 1940) keywords: contend, future, here, hopes, hypothesis, must, nothingness, now, pin, say, those, upon, which , your Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.
by Kim Elizabethkeywords: death, dreadful, eternal, greet, life, may, more, nothing, nothingness, only, profound, than , thought 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.
by Frances Farmer (Actor, American , born in 1913) keywords: after, became, god, him, less, little, nothingness, seemed, such, thing, time, until, useless, waste, why , wondered 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.
by E. M. Forster (Novelist, English , born in 1879) keywords: beyond, death, deaths, differ, even, lives, nothing, nothingness, our, own, shall, their , well 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.
by Mohandas Gandhi (Leader, Indian , born in 1970) keywords: before, helps, into, joy, neither, nor, nothingness, other, pale, pleasures, possessions, rendered, servant, served, service, spirit, which , without 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.
by Bede Griffiths (Clergyman, British , born in 1906) keywords: acknowledge, been, brought, centre, could, everything, god, had, knees, knowledge, life, longer, made, nothingness, out, own, reborn, see , therefore A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
by John Keats (Poet, English , born in 1795) keywords: beauty, forever, increases, into, joy, loveliness, never, nothingness, pass, thing , will When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.
by Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont (Author, French , born in 1846) keywords: action, aim, between, captured, contradiction, distinguish, down, educate, escape, forget, makes, mind, myself, nothingness, only, proportionately, remember, strength, thought, thoughts, times, which , write 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.
by Cesare Pavese (Poet, Italian , born in 1908) keywords: any, because, does, kill, love, misery, nakedness, nothingness, oneself, our, reveals, us, vulnerability , woman 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.
by Miguel de Unamuno (Educator, Spanish , born in 1864) keywords: against, awaits, destiny, even, fight, hope, injustice, make, nothingness, though, us, victory , without The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
by Lew Wallace (Soldier, American , born in 1827) keywords: after, against, death, history, inscriptions, monuments, nations, nothingness, protests , statues
