What is man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, all in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.
Nothing Quotes
To do nothing every man is ashamed; and to do much, almost every man is unwilling or afraid.
We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.
Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear, and speak no evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain. The victim demands action, engagement, and remembering.
To do nothing is in every man’s power.
Nothing will come of nothing. (King Lear)
Every man who can be a first-rate something – as every man can who is a man at all – has no right to be a fifth-rate something; for a fifth-rate something is no better than a first-rate nothing.
Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.
