Quotes About Nonentity

#1. We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization.

Anthony Burgess

#2. What an incorrigible nonentity one must be to play only one role in life, to occupy only one place in society, to always mean one and the same thing!

Boris Pasternak

#3. A blanket could be used to cure the common cold. I mean, come on it's just common sense. A blanket is warm, and if a cold is what it's named, then a blanket would transform a cold into some nameless nonentity. Take that, Louis Pasteur.

Jarod Kintz

#4. No king or emperor in the world had the power to keep captive this nonentity,

Rabindranath Tagore

#5. It is a fiction, a shade, a nonentity, but a reality for legal purposes. A corporation aggregate is only in abstracto-it is invisible, immortal, and rests only in intendment and consideration of the law.

Edward Coke

#6. What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man ... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody.

Vincent Van Gogh

#7. For action has no sense. It merely binds one to existence. All existence, however, has no sense. Evil is interpreted as that which leads to irrationalism: to the affirmation of means whose end is denied. A road to nonentity is the desideratum, hence all emotional impulses are regarded with horror.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. As a small child I had discovered that only two places are available to those who wish to remain concealed. The choices are to be a nonentity or an exception. You either disappear into a plebeian background or move forward to where most others fear to follow.

Bryce Courtenay

#9. Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.

Isabel Paterson

#10. I think that in fact by taking on the persona of a human being, you begin to realise that it is all ego, and that beneath that ego is something else, and that something else is a tranquil, nonentity, that we are simply drops of the sea, that we belong to each other.

George Ogilvie

#11. What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

George Eliot

#12. Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down to mere nonentity. But let me not hear any small witticism to the further effect that its story is a tale told by a vulgarian, full of slang and blanky, signifying-nothing.

Joseph Furphy

#14. I had always been considered such a nonentity where human relations were concerned that the idea that I might have an influence, even a corrupting influence ... penetrated my heart with a fierce little sting of pleasure.

Louis Auchincloss

#15. Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

Barbara Stanwyck

#16. In you is the ability that will move you from nonentity and mediocrity to an entity of meteority. Take responsiblity now!

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#17. Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the citizen a province of liberty; a limitation within which a citizen is a king.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#18. If hate, the antonym of love, is one strong word that we all know it exist but despise, why do people like playing with LOVE like it's nonentity?

PK Gyewu Akrofi

#19. That is, I could either see myself as a nonentity, or I could see myself as whatever I wished to be, like a star, born from the bang of nothing or a dream.

Matthew Aaron Goodman

#20. How comes the world to be here at all instead of the nonentity which might be imagined in its place? ... from nothing to being there is no logical bridge.

William James

#21. Gentle reader, did you ever feel yourself snubbed? Did you ever, when thinking much of your own importance, find yourself suddenly reduced to a nonentity? Such was Eleanor's feeling now.

Anthony Trollope

#22. A cloud was on the mind of men, and wailing went the weather, Yea, a sick cloud upon the soul when we were boys together. Science announced nonentity and art admired decay; The world was old and ended: but you and I were gay; Round

G.K. Chesterton

#23. My parents got divorced when I was around a year old. My dad was essentially a nonentity in my life until I got to be about 16 or so. My mom was a flight attendant for PanAm, so I moved all over the world. London, Rio de Janeiro.

Tucker Max

#24. A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity.

William James

#25. The Romanovian method becomes one of appointing adventurer after incompetent after nonentity to grand offices of state. The liberals and the sharper-witted right grow ever more apoplectic.

China Mieville

#26. I think that America certainly has racism, I think that any industrialized country does. But when you see how many million fans Barack Obama has who are not black, it would lead one to the conclusion that millions of Americans are in fact not burdened by the albatross of racism.

Henry Rollins

#27. Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar.

Gustave Flaubert

#28. There seemed to be some...irregularity in your coming here," the priest said delicately. Thus did he characterize her arrival, bruised and battered, in the arms of her betrothed rather than under the decorous escort of her family.

Josie Litton

#29. Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park.

Donella Meadows

#30. Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

#31. When I do concerts and recitals, the two most common requests are spirituals and opera.

Kathleen Battle

#32. But I find it difficult to recognize people. Human beings are so much alike.

Eric Linklater