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“Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking of it at all, that we reduce an eternity to nothingness, and expand a mere nothing to an eternity; and this habit is so inveterately rooted in us that all the force of reason cannot induce us to lay it aside.”

Thinking Reason Force Imagination Existence Habit Reflection Eternity Lays Mere Rooted Nothingness

Book:Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects

Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects

“Even a minute of dying is better than an eternity of nothingness.”

Minutes Dying Eternity Nothingness

Author:Darren Shan

“We were green: we ripened and grew golden. The Sea terrified us: we learned how to drown. Squat and earthbound, we unfolded huge wings. We started sober: are love's startled drunkards. You hide me in your cloak of nothingness Reflect my ghost in your glass of being I am nothing, yet appear: transparent dream Where your eternity briefly trembles.”

Dream Sea Huge Grew Eternity Green Wings Glasses Ghost Golden Nothingness Terrified Sober Transparent Cloaks Drunkards Squat

Author:Rumi

“To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.”

Men Matter Reality Life Is Despair Eternity Mere Belonging Nothingness Alienation Shameless

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the bosom of the simple and tremendous; because of a forbidden longing deep within him that ran quite contrary to his life's task and was for that very reason seductive, a longing for the unarticulated and immeasurable, for eternity, for nothingness. To rest in the arms of perfection is the desire of any man intent upon creating excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?”

“And somewhat as in blind night, on a mild sea, a sailor may be made aware of an iceberg, fanged and mortal, bearing invisibly near, by the unwarned charm of its breath, nothingness now revealed itself: that permanent night upon which the stars in their expiring generations are less than the glinting of gnats, and nebulae, more trivial than winter breath; that darkness in which eternity lies bent and pale, a dead snake in a jar, and infinity is the sparkling of a wren blown out to sea; that inconceivable chasm of invulnerable silence in which cataclysms of galaxies rave mute as amber.”

Source: A Death in the Family

“Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.”

Ifs Happens Death Fine Eternal Humorous Eternity Witty Nothingness

Author:Woody Allen

“There is no ground for supposing that matter and energy existed before [the Big Bang] and were suddenly galvanized into action. For what could distinguish that moment from all other moments in eternity? It is simpler to postulate creation ex nihilo-Divine will constituting Nature from nothingness.”

Matter Moments Bigs Action Energy Atheism Creation Divine Eternity That Moment Nothingness Exes Bangs Supposing Divine Will Supposing That Matter And Energy

Author:E. T. Whittaker

“Today is the first day of the rest of your short, brutish existence as a sentient creature before being snuffed out into utter nothingness for all eternity.”

Firsts Today Existence Struggle Creatures Eternity Nothingness Life Struggle

Author:Matt Groening

“Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.”

Ifs Men World Soul States Death Night Dies Consciousness This World Gains Eternity Nothingness Migration Unconsciousness Near Death

Book:The Trial and Death of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo

Source: The Trial and Death of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo

“Zero is powerful because it is infinity’s twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and yang. They are equally paradoxical and troubling. The biggest questions in science and religion are about nothingness and eternity, the void and the infinite, zero and infinity. The clashes over zero were the battles that shook the foundations of philosophy, of science, of mathematics, and of religion. Underneath every revolution lay a zero – and an infinity.”

Source: Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea