“These empty words of yours do not weigh on me.”
Euripides
Certainly they don’t as they don’t have any weight in them, so it would be better if such empty words aren’t being uttered at all…it’s more or less noise. And what’s the point in creating noise pollution? Anyway Plautus comes to my rescue when he says:
“You hand me that talk & I’ll hand you something you won’t like.”
That’s the kind of attitude I like. I also know someone very well who has this attitude.
Actually I was just going through my notebooks & I came across a couple of quotes. Well I don’t actually maintain dairies in which I write down personal stuff as such.
Literature is indeed the most seductive thing that could happen to a person. It would not be wrong to say you can have loads & loads of fun with your clothes on…it is that sort of thing. And only another Literature lover could understand what I’m saying. This is not for everyone to assimilate I guess. So don’t try & don’t think.
Work of art and even analytical writings are not for everyone. These are for those who can understand the meaning that is not being said openly. You discover the meaning on your own & it’s not for everyone. I’ve seen that mostly people don’t understand paintings. All they see is a nude model. They are insulting the work of art by making such remarks. Lady Chatterley’s Lover was taken so badly.
Anyhow, Fyodor Dostoyevsky puts it very aptly:
“It is not worth while paying attention to them, because they count for exactly nothing.”
I’m sure we all have experienced this. Sometimes it really is not worth it, unless you think it’s good for a laugh.
Jean-Paul Sartre says it with so much finality that it may break the subject to pieces & it does:
“You are nothing, you do nothing, you have done nothing, & you can do nothing.”
And lastly I will quote Somerset:
“And when you die will it have mattered a damn whether you ever lived or not?”
This is the question which ought to be asked. The answer may surprise you. Yeah if you have a bad habit of lying to yourself, don’t make an attempt. It’s injurious to health.
Nadira Rahman
Euripides
Certainly they don’t as they don’t have any weight in them, so it would be better if such empty words aren’t being uttered at all…it’s more or less noise. And what’s the point in creating noise pollution? Anyway Plautus comes to my rescue when he says:
“You hand me that talk & I’ll hand you something you won’t like.”
That’s the kind of attitude I like. I also know someone very well who has this attitude.
Actually I was just going through my notebooks & I came across a couple of quotes. Well I don’t actually maintain dairies in which I write down personal stuff as such.
Literature is indeed the most seductive thing that could happen to a person. It would not be wrong to say you can have loads & loads of fun with your clothes on…it is that sort of thing. And only another Literature lover could understand what I’m saying. This is not for everyone to assimilate I guess. So don’t try & don’t think.
Work of art and even analytical writings are not for everyone. These are for those who can understand the meaning that is not being said openly. You discover the meaning on your own & it’s not for everyone. I’ve seen that mostly people don’t understand paintings. All they see is a nude model. They are insulting the work of art by making such remarks. Lady Chatterley’s Lover was taken so badly.
Anyhow, Fyodor Dostoyevsky puts it very aptly:
“It is not worth while paying attention to them, because they count for exactly nothing.”
I’m sure we all have experienced this. Sometimes it really is not worth it, unless you think it’s good for a laugh.
Jean-Paul Sartre says it with so much finality that it may break the subject to pieces & it does:
“You are nothing, you do nothing, you have done nothing, & you can do nothing.”
And lastly I will quote Somerset:
“And when you die will it have mattered a damn whether you ever lived or not?”
This is the question which ought to be asked. The answer may surprise you. Yeah if you have a bad habit of lying to yourself, don’t make an attempt. It’s injurious to health.
Nadira Rahman
