Timothy Morton Quotes

In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.

Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.

Afterlife, in my mind, is pretty much nothing. This is it. This is what we get, for me.

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!

One believes that if nothing happens, one disappears. That is not true.

All that remains is was.

An intimate core of my being recognizes that there is nothing in me that can go on: there is no spark; there is no infestation of vaporous miasma that has the capacity to continue, and there is nothing in me that wishes to continue. This moment is, for me, all that there is, and I'm willing to accept it. I'm a worm; I have no soul.

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

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

In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing.

A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more. The heart rebels against this, and feels that it cannot be true.

Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.

Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.

Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

think of nothing things think of wind

My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless.

Being dead will be no different from being unborn -- I shall be just as I was in the time of William the Conqueror or the dinosaurs or the trilobites. There is nothing to fear in that.

Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the absence of presence, nothing more... the endless time of never coming back... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound.

everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death

Death is nothing, nor life either, for that matter. To die, to sleep, to pass into nothingness, what does it matter? Everything is an illusion.

Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.

What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!

I am nothing, and not even that.

Can you say something about nothing?