John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.

Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

You don't miss what you never had.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

It's an unknown, it's a disappeared. It has no identity, it's neither alive nor dead...it's disappeared

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

That's the worst health condition you can have, not being alive.

I never miss reality when I'm not in it, but it's sometimes nice to come back to.

To never have been born may be the greatest boon of all.

And nothing is, but what is not.

Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?

If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?

The song instantly insisted it'd never existed.

I'm missing something when I'm sleeping.

What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day.

I like Silver Surfer because he's the most philosophical, always philosophizing about the human race and the human condition and why people are the way they are, why they don't appreciate this wonderful planet they live on... he has a nice moral tone.

My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless.

You'll never miss the water 'til the well runs dry.

Didn't you ever have a father yourself? You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.' So I figured it's because I never had a father that I don't want one now. A person can't miss something she never had.

Nonexistence never hurt anyone. Existence hurts everyone.

There's something really nice about missing the person you're with. To have someone be apart enough to force independence and to also look forward to seeing that person.

But, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive.

I am nothing, and not even that.

You cannot miss what you have never had.