Jack Kerouac Quotes

Our bodies are given life from the midst of nothingness. Existing where there is nothing is the meaning of the phrase, "Form is emptiness." That all things are provided for by nothingness is the meaning of the phrase, "Emptiness is form." One should not think that these are two seperate things.

All phenomena are empty.

Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.

From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look carefully at any experience we will find transparency, insubstantiality, with no solid, unchanging core to our experience. But that does not mean that nothing matters.

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

The majority of the world is empty space. Empty space, empty space, empty space. All that we see in the world, the life, the animals, plants, people - it's all empty space. That's amazing!

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.

Nothing is more real than nothing.

Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.

In the Lotus Sutra, it is said everything is emptiness - this world is empty, hell is empty, heaven is empty, God is empty, everything is emptiness. Emptiness is the nature of all things, nothingness, so be attuned to nothingness and you will achieve.

Nothingness is the basis of everything.

If love eats the donut, does time eat the hole?

We are not committed to this or that. We are committed to the nothing in-between, whether we know it or not.

What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?

I will take with me the emptiness of my hands. What you do not have you find everywhere

Life is not free from its forms.

Buddha was speaking about reality. Reality may be one, in its deepest essence, but Buddha also stated that all propositions about reality are only contingent. Reality is devoid of any intrinsic identity that can be captured by any one single proposition - that is what Buddha meant by "voidness." Therefore, Buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism.

I can connect Nothing with nothing

Every something is an echo of nothing

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non-existence, one's inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist.

Nothingness haunts Being.

Become empty to become complete, for it is the void that defines the form.

A thing that has no value does not exist.

Strange: how when a light is extinguished, it's immediately as if it has never been. Darkness fills in again, complete.