Possess Nothing Quotes
- There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. — John Cage
- We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- People are hungering for property — for a secure, permanent and independent link with spaceship earth that ownership represents and which only ownership can protect… — Louis O. Kelso
- To have everything is to possess nothing. — Gautama Buddha
- We possess nothing certainly except the past — Evelyn Waugh
- If we possess nothing, God will allow us to have plenty. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
- All things in nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfill their function and make no claim. All things alike do… — Laozi
- My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past. — Evelyn Waugh
- These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me. — Evelyn Waugh
- Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not… — John Cage
- ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim. — Laozi
- I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want. — Jean Racine