Quotes of Nonentity - somelinesforyou

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

- Max Frisch

“ Nothing happens until something moves. ”

- Sir John Denham

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

- Paul Valery

“ Although created out of nothing, that is, through and out of God, he cannot of his own power resolve himself back into this nothingness. ”

- Max Muller

“ I shall be but a shrimp of an author. ”

- Thomas Gray

“ The only reality was nothingness, and over it a hypocrisy of words. ”

- D. H. Lawrence

“ It is better to have a little than nothing. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Nothing's new, and nothing's true, and nothing matters. ”

- Titus Lucretius Carus

“ Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. ”

- Titus Lucretius Carus

“ Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. ”

- Jorge Luis Borges

“ Nothing can be created out of nothing. ”

- Lucretius

“ The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing. ”

- Philip James Bailey

“ Blessed be he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ A three — to four — to five-hour experience with nothingness. ”

- Frederic Glezer

“ Egotism — usually just a case of mistaken nonentity. ”

- Barbara Stanwyck

“ We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves. ”

- Herman Wouk

“ I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. ”

- Glenda Jackson

“ I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more. ”

- Candice Bergen

“ Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ They laboriously do nothing. ”

- Seneca

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

- Samuel Beckett

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

- Beckett

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

- Woody Allen

“ 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. ”

- Cesare Pavese
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