“A little, wretched, despicable creature; a worm, a mere nothing, and less than nothing; a vile insect that has risen up in contempt against the majesty of Heaven and earth.”

“It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human

“There's no creature on earth so despicable and loathsome as a rich man with a conscience.”

Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author

“Everything is love. "HEAVEN ON EARTH" our idea of heaven has been formed by painting and nothing else. I love pure, bright colours, their intellectual clarity of expression conveying nothing but feeling. Painting - the inspired animation of the surface.”

Stefan Szczesny (1951) German painter and sculptor

“Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public RECORDS to be True.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

“That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.”

John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic

“I bear witness that Thou art the Most Manifest, the Omnipotent, the Ever-Abiding; that of all things that exist on earth and in the heavens nothing whatsoever can frustrate Thy purpose and that Thou art the Knower of all things and the Lord of might and majesty.”

Báb (1819–1850) Iranian prophet; founder of the religion Bábism; venerated in the Bahá'í Faith

“Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.”

Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940) Swedish female writer

“The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

“In politics nothing is contemptible.”

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister