Nonentity Quotes

In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of Creation. It is possible - as our experience in this good land shows - to exile ourselves from Creation, and to ally ourselves with the principle of destruction - which is, ultimately, the principle of nonentity. It is to be willing in general for being to not-be. And once we have allied ourselves with that principle, we are foolish to think that we can control the results. (pg. 303, The Gift of Good Land)

It doesn't matter what your name is!

Not even a public figure. A man of no experience and of the utmost insignificance.

There is no there there.

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

It is nothing.

A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity.

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.

It’s just that I’m the kind of person,' Rebecca continued, 'that thinks if you took a map of the whole world and put a pin in it for every person, there wouldn’t be a pin for me.

First you have to know who you are. That is the most important thing, as if you don't know who you are you will either get swallowed up or you follow some unsuitable trends and just become a nonentity.

A third rate nonentity whose only recommendation is that he is obnoxious to no one.

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.

Far more frightening than the thought of dying was the experience of erasure already occurring in my life. My fear of becoming someone who did not count.

I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible - incompletely and minimally existent, in fact. It seemed to me that I made no impact on the world, and that in exchange I was privileged to watch it unawares.