"We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the inconceivable nothingness."

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Source : "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, (1989 - 90).

Peter Wessel Zapffe

#Nothingness Quotes

“The great souls who became mighty in prayer and rejoiced to spend three and four hours a day alone with God were once beginners.”
“The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across.”

Source : "Mike Leigh at the NFT". Interview with Derek Malcolm, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2002.
“People always say that Californian women are obsessed with their appearance but I think you've got to take good care of yourself, for yourself.”
“Men's giving can only be to a certain extent: but God's is without limit.”

Source : J. Sidlow Baxter (1995). “For God So Loved: An In-Depth Look at the Bible's Most Loved Verse”, p.58, Kregel Publications
“The one thing that gives you faith is the fact that people can be apart physically but they can still have an emotional connection.”
“We're showing a lot of the good signs you need for a good team, so I have high hopes.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.”
“I had been virtually a Unitarian (as I still am) but without knowing it. The experience of being among Unitarians who did know what they were, and attached much importance to it, was entirely novel to me, but I soon fell into their ways and found it easy to go forward on their road, the more so because the other roads became closed to me.”

Source : "The Confession of an Octogenaria". Book by LP Jacks, p. 99, 1942.

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