“Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.”
William Faulkner book If I Forget Thee
Variant: Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief
Source: The Wild Palms
Source: Green Angel
“Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.”
William Faulkner book If I Forget Thee
Variant: Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief
Source: The Wild Palms
“I have nothing to speak of but my self-and what can I say but what I feel”
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
Letter to John Hamilton Reynolds (August 24, 1819)
Letters (1817–1820)
“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky book Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment (1866)
“He who does not speak foreign languages knows nothing about his own.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen.
Maxim 91
Maxims and Reflections (1833)
“Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.”
David Mamet (1947) American playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and film director
Source: True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor
Warren Zevon (1947–2003) American singer-songwriter
As quoted in "Warren Zevon's Resurrection: How he saved himself from a coward's death" http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5935191/warren_zevons_resurrection/print by Paul Nelson, Rolling Stone (19 March 1981)
David Gemmell book Waylander II: In the Realm of the Wolf
ibid
Drenai series, Waylander II: In the Realm of the Wolf
“Nothing. Jail is about nothing. Completely blank.”
Ai Weiwei (1957) Chinese concept artist
2010-, Ai Weiwei: ‘Shame on Me.’, 2011
James Morrison (1984) English singer-songwriter and guitarist
If You Don't Wanna Love Me
Song lyrics, Undiscovered (James Morrison album) (2006)
“You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”
William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice
Source: The Merchant of Venice