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)
“Just think of all the spare time that has flown
Straight into nothingness by being filled
With forks and faces....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“Were we positive, eager, real—alive? No, we were not. We were a nothingness shot with gleams of what might be.”
—Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923)