Nothing Quotes

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

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself.

Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.

What is man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, all in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.

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.