Quotes of Nothingness - somelinesforyou

“ Too often, governments have operated in a vacuum, believing they could come up with some magic formula to which they have an exclusive patent. ”

- Kim Campbell

“ In indolent vacuity of thought. ”

- William Cowper

“ Nothing happens until something moves. ”

- Sir John Denham

“ A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ They laboriously do nothing. ”

- Seneca

“ 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

“ Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity. ”

- Malcolm Muggeridge

“ Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. ”

- Tennessee Williams

“ Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Alexander Pope

“ Why and Wherefore set out one day, To hunt for a wild Negation. They agreed to meet at a cool retreat On the Point of Interrogation. ”

- Oliver Herford

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

- Titus Lucretius Carus

“ We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from. ”

- Titus Lucretius Carus

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

- Titus Lucretius Carus

“ When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum. ”

- Julia Cameron

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

- Publilius Syrus

“ Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity. ”

- Erma Bombeck

“ Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner. ”

- Sophia Loren

“ We should start figuring out how we get out of there. But with this understanding, we cannot leave a vacuum that further destabilizes the Middle East. ”

- Chuck Hagel

“ Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum. ”

- Baruch Spinoza

“ And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really. ”

- Rick Moranis

“ There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. ”

- Arthur C. Clarke

“ Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity. ”

- George Steiner

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

- Paul Valery

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

- Beckett

“ Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child. ”

- Waiter Rant

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

- Frederic Glezer

“ 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

“ Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. ”

- John Updike
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