Posts Tagged With: Nothingness

one way street

 

“It’s such a strange time that we’re passing through,
I thought you’d tell me when your time was due,
I guess you thought I knew…”

 

~ Leon Russell

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2021.


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polluted pearls

 

“Life is meaningless, but worth living,
provided you recognize it’s meaningless.”

 

~ Albert Camus ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2023.


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one thin wire

 

“Every moment is the paradox of now or never.”

 

~ Simon Van Booy ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2007.


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réflexions

 

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

 

~ Max Frisch ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2018.


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nothing

 

“We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode
in the blissful repose of nothingness.”

 

~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2017.


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solitude descending

 

“Man loves company even if it is only
that of a small burning candle.”

 

~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken sometime in 1989.


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all our being ends

 

“At the moment when we end, all our being ends with us.”

 

~ Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti de Mirabeau ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.


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étreinte de l’ange

 

“Is it possible that existence is our exile
and nothingness our home?”

 

~ Emile M. Cioran ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris in May 2018.


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cracks and crevices

 

“We are an episode between two oblivions.”

 

~ Thomas Nagel ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2020.


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the river flows

 

“Free fall flow, river flow, on and on it goes,
breathe under water till the end,
yes, the river knows…”

 

~ Robbie Krieger ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2022.


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ces vieilles mains

 

“Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand.
It was my other hand.”

 

~ William S. Burroughs ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2019.


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the event horizon

 

“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Canary Island of La Palma in May 1994.


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pure, simple nothing

 

“I love to talk about nothing.
It’s the only thing I know anything about.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2020.


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ombres sur mon mur

 

“Like a shadow, I am and I am not.”

 

~ Rumi ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2019.


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AN ABSENCE OF EVERYTHING

 

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

 

~ Samuel Beckett ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2018.


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THE ANGEL OF DEATH

 

“Is it possible that existence is our exile
and nothingness our home?”

 

~ Emile M. Cioran ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris in May 2018.


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NOTHING AT ALL

 

“Belief never was, is not and will never be truth.”

 

~ Erik Barth ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.


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WEATHERED

 

“Our lives are written in disappearing ink.”

 

~ Michelle Cliff ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in August 2017.


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LAST LEAF

 

“No one but Night, with tears on her dark face,
watches beside me in this windy place.”

 

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2017.


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STILLLEBEN

 

“…life, by definition, is never still.”

 

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2021.


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