Glenn Gould Quotes

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

It is nothing.

All I say cancels out, I’ll have said nothing.

Black is the Color and none is the number

What do you mean less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Nothing is absolutely the limit of nothingness. It's the lowest you can go. It's the end of the line. How can something be less than nothing? If there were something that was less than nothing, then nothing would not be nothing, it would be something - even though it's just a very little bit of something. But if nothing is nothing, then nothing has nothing that is less than it is.

Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.

I am the Spirit that denies.

I am nothing, and not even that.

Every something is an echo of nothing

There was no Lo to behold.

The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth.

By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold, by convention color is color. But in reality there are atoms and the void. That is, the objects of sense are supposed to be real and it is customary to regard them as such, but in truth they are not. Only the atoms and the void are real.

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

When you find nothing... it means you're eliminating what surrounds the something.

I believe that either Jupiter has life or it doesn't. But I neither believe that it does, nor do I believe that it doesn't.

Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void.

We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.

How easy it is to forget grudges when someone has something you need.

Ah! never shall the land forget.

Thirty spokes meet in the hub. Where a wheel isn't is where it's useful. Hollowed out, clay makes a pot. Where the pots not is where it's useful. Cut doors and windows to make a room. Where the room isn't, there's room for you. So the profit in what is, is in the use of what isn't.

In all the events of life, we ought still to preserve our scepticism. If we believe that fire warms, or water refreshes, it is only because it costs us too much pains to think otherwise.

Puddleglum's my name. But it doesn't matter if you forget it. I can always tell you again.

The truth is that my work - I was going to say my mission - is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention in faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself; it is to war against all those who submit, whether it be to Catholicism, or to rationalism, or to agnosticism; it is to make all men live the life of inquietude and passionate desire.

We find ourselves only by looking to what we’re not.