Mark Twain Quotes

Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished.

A point in every direction is the same as having no point at all.

The idle mind knows not what it wants.

The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.

I was always stuck in a musical no man's land.

I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.

Actually, I'm going around in circles.

We are anxious because we do not know what roles to pursue, what principles for action to believe in. Our individual anxiety, somewhat like that of the nation, is a basic confusion and bewilderment about where we are going.

I'm able to do nothing.

When I got out of Job Corps, I was an empty shell. I didn't know what to do with myself.

The cliches that circulate in the German media about Joachim Sauer are a total fallacy. The fact is that he's his own man. He's witty, he's profound, he can be incredibly funny, and he's an extremely bright guy.

To just slow yourself down, just to not do anything and drive around - I'm not like that. I'm not here to fill up the field.

I really don't have a clear trajectory at all.

I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didn’t know what that was. I knew only what it wasn’t. The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan

This is not a place, after all. It is BETWEEN places. This is NOWHERE. A brief thought: I could stay here, abandon my quest, hang forever in the void, safe and cold and alone.

The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he would use it) does not have the passion to rip himself away from either the coils of Reflection or the seductive ambiguities of Reflection; nor do the surroundings and times have any events or passions, but rather provide a negative setting of a habit of reflection, which plays with some illusory project only to betray him in the end with a way out: it shows him that the most clever thing to do is nothing at all.

Start at B. Yes. No. Yes. No.

The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach

Do you ever get moods when life seems absolutely meaningless? It's like a badly-constructed story, with all sorts of characters moving in and out who have nothing to do with the plot. And when somebody comes along that you think really has something to do with the plot, he suddenly drops out. After a while you begin to wonder what the story is about, and you feel that it's about nothing—just a jumble.

I never knew what an engineer did for a living when I was a kid. I still don't.

Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.

There was confusion since I stood here 35 years ago.

Dude, are my eyes seeing what my brain is telling my eyes that they're seeing?

I live at the end of a dead end one way street. I don't know how I got there.

I wish I could say farewell and retire but there is nothing for me to retire from.