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If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.


Tadao Ando

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ALDO PALAZZESCHI Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
WOODY ALLEN Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.
ISABELLE ADJANI What is next to ecstasy?
Pain.
What is next to pain?
Nothingness.
What is next t...
UMERA AHMED Nothing, thou elder brother e'en to shade.
JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON It is better to have a little than nothing.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) Madam, you have bereft me of all words. Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They laboriously do nothing. [Lat., Operose nihil agunt.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.
ANTOINE DE RIVAROL Nothing can be born of nothing, nothing can be resolved into nothing. [Lat., Gigni De nihilo ...
PERSIUS (AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS) Nothing's new, and nothing's true, and nothing matters.
LUCRETIUS (TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS) We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from. ...
LUCRETIUS (TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS) Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into thei...
LUCRETIUS (TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS) Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be done. [Lat., Nil actum credens, ...
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear out but clothes, To kee...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING, JR. Nothing happens until something moves.
MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS (MARCUS AURELIUS) Out of breath to no purpose, in doing much doing nothing. A race (of busybodies) hurtful to itself...
PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA) It is the silence between the notes that makes the music; it is the space between the bars that hol...
OLD SAYING Why and Wherefore set out one day, To hunt for a wild Negation. They agreed to meet at a cool ...
OLIVER HERFORD Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.
MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS (MARCUS AURELIUS) Let go of your constant strife to sustain and assert the idea of who you are. It is this massive eff...
FRANCO SANTORO What a pitiful mass of dangerous nothing
CHARLES BUKOWSKI If all great minds thought alike, we'd be stuck in perpetual nothingness.
JOSH HOLMAN In life, some good and beautiful things can always come to you from almost nowhere, from almost noth...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternati...
JERRY SALTZ Confidence in yourself is what allows you to rise up and reach your potential. Confidence is not ach...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Absolute equals nothingness.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Pass into nothingness.
JOHN KEATS We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER When you feel you've hit rock bottom and quite at the brink of nothingness; taking time to give than...
CHELSEA R. BLUES Maniacal obsession can be a destructive or a transformative psychic force. What is unacceptable is a...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Be yourself, be who you can be.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and n...
TOM HOOPER Nah, I shook my head, things that come out of nowhere go back to nowhere, that’s all.

W...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Without madness what is man
But a wholesome beast,
Postponed corpse that begets?
FERNANDO PESSOA Não sou nada.
Nunca serei nada.
Não posso querer ser nada.
À parte isso, tenho ...
FERNANDO PESSOA I am nothing.
I'll never be anything.
I couldn't want to be something.
Apart from tha...
FERNANDO PESSOA There's nothing I hate more than nothing. Nothing keeps me up at night. I toss and turn over nothing...
EDIE BRICKELL I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever w...
FERNANDO PESSOA Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Even the faded flower denies nothingness.
MARTY RUBIN If you collect all the empty spaces in the world and take it away you will see that the nothingness ...
ANDONI GARCIA You can't beg from people what they're not willing to give you.
ELISABETH HASSELBECK Confidence is not achieved overnight. It can be achieved by learning from mistakes, it can be achiev...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA There is nothing as chaotic as NOTHINGNESS !
EPHDAN Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK You realize the limits of your body. The thing you don't want to do is freak out and swim hard. At s...
CAN OSTEN Kurtuluş Savaşı yılları... Türkiye Cumhuriyeti'nin kuruluşunda emeği geçen ama gölgede kal...
CAN DüNDAR Divers have found there is no air left in the holds of the ship. That means sea water has filled the...
CAN KARACA They must be all dead, if there is anybody else in those holds.
CAN KARACA There is little hope to find them alive.
CAN KARACA Bi sen eksiktin ayışığı
Gümüş bir tüy dikmek için manzaraya!
CAN YüCEL An innocent breath of life comes from the deep of all darkness! It just takes a moment, an instant a...
E. C. LEMUS One who overcomes obstacle with determination & decides not to give up develops real strength. When ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Stop allowing your day-to-day life to be clouded by busy nothingness.
STEVE MARABOLI Lewa, mystery-king of know-nothingness. That's me!
CATHERINE HAPKA It is this nothingness (in solitude) that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful t...
HENRI J.M. NOUWEN Right at that moment it was as if we were the only two people left in the world. And I don't mean th...
LUCY CHRISTOPHER We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died...
HARUKI MURAKAMI By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.
EMIL M. CIORAN Quand il mangeait des babas ou des éclairs, il se sentait coupable jusqu'à l'âme, à cause de la ...
BOILEAU-NARCEJAC And in the livid night there creeps a basilisk, spawned by the moon after its strange fashion. The m...
HANNS HEINZ EWERS Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.
MIRANDA JULY And somewhat as in blind night, on a mild sea, a sailor may be made aware of an iceberg, fanged and ...
JAMES AGEE I wish there was a variable to represent nothingness in logic.
EPHDAN He was the most inconsiderable creature in that swarming mass of mankind which for a brief space occ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM A lot of people think death is nothingness, that somehow they'll stop existing. They're pretty surpr...
DANI HARPER The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of...
ANDRE MALRAUX The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of...
ANDRE MALRAUX Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eterna...
KIM ELIZABETH A three -- to four -- to five-hour experience with nothingness.
FREDERIC GLEZER We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, ...
E.M. FORSTER People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, ...
E. M. FORSTER The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothing...
EMIL CIORAN As if to build a fence around the fatal emptiness inside her, she had to create a sunny person that ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
SAMUEL BECKETT God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
PAUL VALERY Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness
SAMUEL BECKETT Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE You can be all that you want to be.
Keep dreaming and reach out to your dreams.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which h...
BLAISE PASCAL Each word seemed to me an unnecessary stain on silence of nothingness.
SAMUEL BECKETT One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and h...
NORMAN MAILER Without using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of ...
ANNE LAMOTT I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.
DANIEL KEYES If you have a burning ambition and desire, absolutely anything can be achieved.
JAHANGIR KHAN It would be fantastic if everyone joined forces to give what they can.
NAOMI CAMPBELL In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you...
MOTHER TERESA If you think it is when you have enough that you can give to others, you will never give. No man can...
ALALE ANTHONY Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the...
VIRGINIA WOOLF You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about wh...
JAMES PATTERSON Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.
PHILIP LARKIN No is the opposite of yes. Yes is the opposite of no. Nothing is the opposite of nothing. There is o...
EPHDAN I have only the idea I have made of myself to sustain me on oceans of nothingness
HENRY DE MONTHERLANT There is nothing more savage than modern civilization.
BRYANT MCGILL The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.
POPE JOHN XXIII Selfishness leads to nothingness. Generosity and benevolence leads to great reward,” he explained.
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