Christian de Duve Quotes

I want them to forget me.

It Will Be As If I Never Existed

So much of my work has been about disappearing.

Everything is created to be annihilated.

Gone. Vanished. Nothing left. Nothing said.

Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

All that remains is was.

Can you say something about nothing?

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non-existence, one's inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist.

Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation.

Very soon he will vanish completely in the wings of his own wordless stanza. [ ] but his stanza is not completely empty [ * ]

After death there is nothing.

He was no more, freed from being, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he'd feared from the start.

When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.

This is indeed the annihilation of space.

What I try to do is write about forgotten people, and, in a certain sense, we're all forgotten.

Nothingness is not nothing at all, so it is physical, but not in the sense of constant presence. Nothingness is disturbing. It is there in a mind-independent sense; it is part of what is given.

The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there.

For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds / Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.

An empty shell. Those were the first words that sprang to mind. .... Something incredibly important - .. - had disappeared from Miu for good. Leaving behind not life, but its absence

We are not. We never were; we never shall be. We return to the void we never, for mehay is the center of all, and all is the center of nothing.

There was someone there and they had been there. There was no one there. There was someone there and they had been there and they had not left but there was no one there.

Do not seek death, seek destruction.

When one thing takes another away, what do we call that?” she asked my class. “Homicide!” I called out