Nothingness

Famous quotes containing the word nothingness:

    “Once one has kissed a cadaver’s forehead, there always remains something of it on the lips, an infinite bitterness, an aftertaste of nothingness that nothing can erase.”
    —Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

    “The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.”
    —Georg Büchner (1813–1837)

    “If the pages of this book contain some successful verse, the reader must excuse me the discourtesy of having usurped it first. Our nothingness differs little; it is a trivial and chance circumstance that you should be the reader of these exercises and I their author.”
    —Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)