Philip James Bailey Quotes

There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness. Not of bad things like a cave full of monsters and so, you're afraid of entering it. It's just nothingness, the void, emptiness and it is just horrible. It's like contemplating a future-less future and so you just want to step out of it. The monstrosity of being alive overwhelms you.

There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.

Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness.

One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

If I was to say I had a life, that would be a lie.

Meaninglessness takes hold because meaninglessness is addictive.

Hell is life drying up.

I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.

Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.

I am nothing, and not even that.

What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?

Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.

Nothingness haunts Being.

Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

Don't you see, if when we die there's nothing, all your sun and fields and what not are all, ah, horror? It's just an ocean of horror.

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.

I do suspect that this world is hell.

I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!