absence of being Quotes

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

The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second-best thing for you - is to die soon.

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

I can't understand nothingness. I can't understand it and I can't imagine it.

Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.

So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.

Nothing is a thing: it's nothing. So I can imagine a place where there's not even nothing.

We are not. We never were; we never shall be. We return to the void we never, for mehay is the center of all, and all is the center of nothing.