Pastoral Resources

Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.

To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.