Quotes about nobody

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“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.”

“To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.”

“When mauma saw my raw eyes, she said, “Ain’t nobody can write down in a book what you worth.”

“Her best friend was gone and nobody understood that no amount of makeup, fresh air or shopping was going to fill the hole in her heart.”

“… Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.”

“Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes.”

“If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of mediocrity and are a success, then your defying 'the law' and deserve to be punished.”

“Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him….”

“The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.”

“Nobody tells you what you can and can't do.”

“Nobody quite knew what to make of the moon any more.”

“He needed his solitude at times, but he wasn't a hermit. He did a lot of socializing. Sometimes I think it was like he was storing up company for the times when he knew nobody would be around.”

“Like it or not,” he said, “you're still his daughter. Run from it, spit on it, that’s your choice. Those of the blood can insult the blood. Nobody else. I won’t allow it.”

“How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said.
I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it.
Nobody would know it.
It wouldn't make any difference. When you die it's the same as if everybody else died too.”

“And I realized as I walked through the neighborhood how each house could contain a completely different reality. In a single block, there could be fifty seperate worlds. Nobody ever really knew what was going on just next door.”

“Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.”

“To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click 'I agree'.”

“To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”

“Nobody else can demean me. I can only demean myself”

“When the police came, they found my brother asleep on the roof. Nobody knows how he got there.”

“Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.”

“Being an author sucks, doesn't it? It's like telling a joke and nobody laughs for two years.”

“She told me that every other step was just for me.'
But that's only half of the dance,' I said.
Yeah,' my father said. 'She was keeping the rest for herself. Nobody can give everything away. It ain't healthy.”

“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.”

“I'm a misunderstood genius."
"What's misunderstood?"
"Nobody thinks I'm a genius.”

“Nobody at any time is cut off from God.”

“It is almost a joke, but a joke that nobody tells.”

“Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.”

“Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.”

“Down there the nights are bright and nobody believes in the Devil.”

“He came into the world like a delivery that no one knew what to do with, and nobody wanted to sign for.”

“Sasori, your strength came because of your soul, not in spite of it… You were supposed to be a a top-class ninja puppeteer, not a worthless nobody who lets someone else pull the strings.
- Kankurou (Naruto Ch 518)”

“Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.”

“I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.”

“There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.”

“There are things in that wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will.”

“What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.”

“Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.”

“Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.”

“Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.”

“Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent.”

“I'm for open-mindedness and tolerance. I'm against any form of fanaticism, fundamentalism or zealotry, and this certainty of 'We have the truth.' The truth is far too large and complex. Nobody has the truth.”

“The one good thing about being kind of shy is that nobody bugs you when you want to be left alone.”

“You're, you see, and nobody else. Youyou, right?”

“All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.”

“Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.”

“Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep--
But nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep.
Maybe you just had the worst day of your life;
Well, you know, there's no escape.
That's no excuse. Just suck up and be nice.”

“I do all this alone, everything I achieve, I achieve alone, because it's my head I'm locked into, and I share this space with nobody but myself.”

“Nobody got murdered before lunch. But nobody. People weren't up to it. You needed a good lunch to get both the blood-sugar and blood-lust levels up.”

“Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.”

“Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.”

“Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.”

“Nobody knows who said it first, but somebody must have: 'Kid's gotta be a maniac.”

“A lot of people never use their initiative because nobody told them to.”

“All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me.
-Ying Ying”

“Let's face it - with a few exceptions, nobody likes anybody.”

“I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions.”

“I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed.”

“You'd think getting chopped into a million pieces and cast into the darkest part of the Underworld would give him a subtle clue that nobody wanted him around.”

“Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age
The child is grown, and puts away childish things.
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
Nobody that matters, that is.”

“Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.”

“Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.”

“A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.”

“Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.”

“Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time.”

“Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.”

“I should be a success and I'm not and other people- younger people- are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?”

“What is it with me? Am I absolutely nobody, but merely inordinately vain? I do not know…. But I am most fearfully unhappy. That is all. I am so unhappy that I wish I was dead—yet I should be mad to die when I have not yet lived at all.”

“Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.”

“i usedta live in the world
really be in the world
free & sweet talkin
good mornin & thank-you & nice day
uh huh
i cant now
i cant be nice to nobody
nice is such a rip-off
regular beauty & a smile in the street
is just a set-up”

“Bad people succeed and good people fail, but that's not the end of the story. Miracles happen that nobody sees, and among us walk heroes who are never recognized, and people live in loneliness because they cannot believe they are loved.”

“Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.”

“Well isn’t that one thing you’re all the more wise for? Age has taught
you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody
knows what’s going on”

“You are who you are when nobody's watching.”

“An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.”

“My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed — my dearest pleasure when free.”

“Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.”

“It’s frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.”

“I hope nobody took the Razzle Dazzle Rose.”

“Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.”

“nobody ever finds
the one”

“A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.”

“Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.”

“I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this outcast whom nobody wants.”

“No matter how much kids beg to be treated like adults, nobody likes to let go of their childhood. You wish for it and dream of it and the second you have it, you wonder what you've done. You wonder what it is you've become.”

“If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.”

“So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that.”

“I’m blushing at my own stupid, nonsensical, meaningless thought process, which, by the way, nobody knows about except me.”

“Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.”

“Even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody.”

“When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.”

“And he has to live like this on the edge of destruction, alone, with nobody at all to understand or pity him”

“Nobody Wants to be themselves. That's why there's tv. -Ephigenia”

“I wish you'd fall in love with me," she said.
"Why?"
"Because you're really someone worth falling in love with. And if we were in love, I wouldn't be drifting. I wouldn't be nobody. At least not while I was with you.”

“You ever laughed so hard
nobody in the world could hurt you for a minute,
no matter what they tried to do to you?”

“I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.”

“What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.”

“Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.”

“It was only the matter of a new voice. Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of one's self, like a fingernail.”