132 quotes found
“Nothing is the whole story. The self’s curse – and the writer’s.”
“I know only that it is time for me to be something when I am nothing.”
“I'll stand next to that fountain and wait until the Official find me. And when she does and asks me what I'm doing, I'll tell her and everyone else that I know: t hey are giving us pieces of a real...”
“I am nothing, and not even that.”
“What about you, Michel, what are you going to do here?'The response closest to the truth was probably something like 'Nothing'; but it's always difficult to explain that kind of thing to an active ...”
“For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he wa...”
“-What is nothing? I impetuously asked.-It is what you can see of your eyes without a mirror, was the answer.”
“As the days and weeks and seasons wore on he found himself repeating this nothing, not wanting to. Gradually he came to understand that this particular nothing was all that he could really say now....”
“Nothing is mightier than our why, nothing stands above it, because in the end there is a why to which no answer is possible. In fact, from why to why, from one step to the next, you get to the end ...”
“Nothing happened. Nothing continued to happen. More Nothing. The Return of Nothing. Son of Nothing. Nothing Rides Again. Nothing and Abbot and Costello meet the Wolfman...”
“Nothing happens. And by that I mean nothing.”
“Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.”