Niente Quotes

#1. The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. Dolce far niente: the pleasure of doing anything

Elizabeth Gilbert

#3. The phlegamtic female is a weepy, bug-eyed, fat, lumpy, fleshy German. She looks like a sack of flour. She is born in order to become a mother-in-law. That is her whole ambition.

Anton Chekhov

#4. I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.

Taylor Caldwell

#5. The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and men unconsciously seek for it in each other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. Both men had talked of their intentions to commit suicide. Both used the typical argument - they had nothing more to expect from life. In both cases it was a question of getting them to realize that life was still expecting something from them; something

Viktor E. Frankl

#7. I'd like to continue acting as long as I enjoy it.

Holliday Grainger

#8. Every film I do, I'm involved with from the very conception of the project.

Irwin Winkler

#9. I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.

Rachel Caine

#10. Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.

William Blake

#11. You chose us. Now we have to choose you.

Veronica Roth

#12. Nash wanted to live a life with no regrets. I wanted to live a life that was fulfilled. We needed each other to accomplish that, and now that we had each other there was no then versus now, there was just this life we had together.

Jay Crownover