Vegetate

Famous quotes containing the word vegetate:

“If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.”
—C.C. (Charles Caleb)

“The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)