Quotes About Nonexistence

#1. Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure.

Rumi

#2. The world of atheism was cracking apart for me, just as once the world of Catholic faith had cracked apart. I was losing my faith in the nonexistence of God.

Anne Rice

#3. Christianity offers a different vision, the vision of a merciful and loving God, whose "silence" about our sins need not be interpreted as a sign of His nonexistence, but instead as an expression of His patience and readiness to forgive. But

Tomas Halik

#4. There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.

Emil Cioran

#5. Death can be successfully put out of mind for the simple reason that it is beyond human experience. Death is either the abstract concept of nonexistence or the emotion of fear.

Lidiya Ginzburg

#6. Dalai Lama: "If a scientist confirm nonexistence of something we believe, then we have to accept that."
Dan Harris: "So if scientists come up with something that contradicts your beliefs, you will change your beliefs?"
Dalai Lama: "Oh yes. Yes.

Dan Harris

#7. But the universe would not turn backward. It was a great engine projected upon the grey void of nonexistence.

Frank Herbert

#8. Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented.

Arthur C. Clarke

#9. We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves.

Herman Wouk

#10. It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#11. When you visit Nirvana, there is neither existence nor nonexistence. Your baggage never arrives because there is no one there to claim it.

Frederick Lenz

#12. The nonexistence of God makes more difference to some of us than to others. To me, it means that there is no absolute morality, that moralities are sets of social conventions devised by humans to satisfy their needs.

Bertrand Russell

#13. Death had brought them all here for a kind of United Nations summit, a roundtable discussion on nonexistence.

Caitlin Doughty

#14. The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#15. [F]ree will seems to violate all we know of how the world works, but as long as we cannot construct a logical proof of its nonexistence we cling to it tenaciously, even desperately.

Jeffrey M. Schwartz

#16. One the grand paradoxes of existence and nonexistence is the uncertainty of uncertainty. Even uncertainty can be uncertain. However, can you be certain of such uncertainty?

Lionel Suggs

#17. Nonexistence never hurt anyone. Existence hurts everyone.

Thomas Ligotti

#18. Control doesn't validate love; it validates the nonexistence of trust and the painful unwillingness to accept the truth.

Shannon L. Alder

#19. Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.

Anne Wilson Schaef

#20. At the end of his life, no man, if he be sincere and in possession of his faculties, would ever wish to go though it again. Rather than this, he will much prefer to choose complete nonexistence.

Irvin D. Yalom

#21. What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#22. I died seventy-six hours ago - or so I've been told. Nonexistence - how to describe it? There are no words. I leave that question and the entire Great Guess to the philosophers, the theologians, and the ministers. This is all I know: I was; I was not; I was again.

Stephen Payne

#23. A friend once told me 'The body has nay conscience.' I dinna ken that that's entirely so-but it is true that the body doesna generally admit the possibility of nonexistence. And if ye exist-well, ye need food, that's all.

Diana Gabaldon

#24. Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.

Arthur C. Clarke

#25. Every graveyard gives this very simple message: The nonexistence shore exists!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#26. The unearthly arrogance of the nonexistence.

Allen Ellow

#27. What is not pronounced tends to nonexistence.

Czeslaw Milosz

#28. The thing is, I don't have the strength to end my life. I have no desire to slit my wrists or OD on pills. I'm too tired. Too lazy. If I could just fade into nonexistence, that'd be perfect.

Cheryl McIntyre

#29. By saying that phenomena are empty of intrinsic existence, we are declaring not their nonexistence but their interdependence, their absence of concrete reality. And the emptiness of phenomena, far from being a mental construct or a concept, corresponds to the reality itself of the phenomenal world.

Dalai Lama XIV

#30. Nothing, my dear and clever colleague, is not your run-of-the-mill nothing, the result of idleness and inactivity, but dynamic, aggressive Nothingness, that is to say, perfect, unique, ubiquitous, in other words Nonexistence, ultimate and supreme.

Stanislaw Lem

#31. A time comes when you don't have to use meditation techniques anymore. You just sit down and you are nonexistence itself.

Frederick Lenz

#32. For me, the existence of nonexistence of God is a nonissue.

Greg Graffin

#33. It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

Max Frisch

#34. I have made a similar suggestion for poetry: that one should approach it as pure sonority, reading and rereading it as a sort of music, and should not introduce meanings or intentions into the diction before clearly grasping the system of sounds that every poem must offer on pain of nonexistence.

Paul Valery

#35. The Portal of God is nonexistence. All things sprang from nonexistence. Existence could not make existence existence. It must have proceeded from nonexistence, and nonexistence and nothing are one. Herein is the abiding place of the sage.

Zhuangzi

#36. Suchness is neither that which is existence, nor that which is nonexistence, nor that which is at once existence and nonexistence, nor that which is not at once existence and nonexistence.

Asvaghosa

#37. I have been so naughted in Thy Love's existence that my nonexistence is a thousand times sweeter than my existence

Rumi

#38. The pessimist's credo, or one of them, is that nonexistence never hurt anyone and existence hurts everyone.

Thomas Ligotti

#39. Nonexistence. The society of the nonexistent. In the street yesterday a nonexistent person trod on my foot with his nonexistent foot.

Imre Kertesz

#40. If you are gone then I will welcome nonexistence. There will be nothing left for me to live for.

Julie Kagawa

#41. I don't ever participate in debates about the existence or nonexistence of God because I can't imagine why anyone would be persuaded one way or the other by such things.

Susan Jacoby

#42. Silence equals nonexistence. If I don't raise my voice, it's like I never existed.

Margaret Cho

#43. I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He Himself can be held responsible; in my opinion, only His nonexistence could excuse Him.

Albert Einstein

#44. I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me, the party hasn't begun until we're talking about the nonexistence of God.

James Mercer

#45. The unrest which keeps the never stopping clock of metaphysics going is the thought that the nonexistence of this world is just as possible as its existence.

William James

#46. The universe is the way it is , whether we like
it or not. The existence or nonexistence of a creator is independent
of our desires . A world without God or purpose may seem harsh
or pointless, but that alone doesn ' t require God to actually exist.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#47. This reconciliation with Hitler reveals the profound moral perversity of a world that rests essentially on the nonexistence of return, for in this world everything is pardoned in advance and therefore everything cynically permitted.

Milan Kundera

#48. It's not easy to speak of nonexistence, even if you've already commissioned your tomb.

Hilary Mantel

#49. I think that the world ended a long time ago and no one realizes it. We're in a dream somewhere in a vortex of energy that just hasn't realized its nonexistence yet.

Frederick Lenz

#50. Today it is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence; it is either nonviolence or nonexistence.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#51. To not be photographed daily, even by oneself, to not be recorded and videoed and dispersed into the turbulent winds of the net, was to court nonexistence.

David Cronenberg

#52. It is best not to be born or to die as soon as possible.

Pliny The Elder

#53. The greatest of fools are those who fail to mark the invisible from the nonexistent.

Raheel Farooq