#nothin

I woke up dead. Not only dead...but in hell. I had always been somewhat sketchy on what the afterlife - were there actually such a thing - would be like for a person such as I. From all accounts and all my imaginings, I figured it would be one of two things. Either I would be surrounded by great, burning masses that were endlessly immolating souls in torment... or else I would find myself trapped within my own mind as a helpless bystander, condemned to watching me live out my life over and over again and powerless to do anything to change any of it. When idle speculation prompted me to dwell on these two options, I would find myself drawn invariably to the former, since the later was just too hideous to contemplate. ... I was almost afraid to open my eyes, because once I did, I would know one way or the other. Perhaps I could have just lain there forever. Perhaps I was supposed to. Perhaps that was my true condemnation: to simply reside in hell with my eyes closed afraid of opening them lest matters deteriorate even further than they already had. This, in turn, made me dwell on the fact that every time I had believed things couldn’t get worse, they promptly had done so with almost gleeful enthusiasm . ↗

— Peter David

#humor #sir-apropos-of-nothing #wake-up #change

Never let the state of waiting be in your mind. Just do something else and do it by intention. ↗

— Toba Beta

#do-something-else #life #recipe #state-of-waiting #life

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. ↗

— Socrates

#am #because #i #i am #intelligent

...people with nothing to declare carry the most. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#carry #life #nothing #struggles #life

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#life #nothingness #life

Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard. ↗

— Steve Carell

#good #hard #incredibly #laughing #me

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#absolutely #certain #everything #know #must

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#carpentry #hard #just #literature #material

The whole idea of equal justice under law means that you've got to play by the rules. It has nothing to do with the underlying subject matter. You just tell the truth. ↗

— Kenneth Starr

#equal justice #got #idea #just #justice

I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few refuges. But to just own land to do nothing with it I think is a disservice to the Constitution. ↗

— Don Young

#constitution #disservice #federal #federal government #few