Superfluous Quotes

Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.

Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those to whom it is sure to be doing the least possible good.

The more material we lose, the less we have. The less we have, the more we win.

I only wrote prose before I met you. My musings were superfluous and serious as well. But now the words dance with me. I sing with them and we create poetry.

The living and efficaciously acting moral order is itself God. We require no other God, nor can we grasp any other.