Quotes about nobody
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“I think that others can drive a creature to naughtiness, always accusing and blaming them. After a while it must make the creature unhappy and drive him… to be naughty, because nobody expects them to be good…”

Brian Jacques book Outcast of Redwall

Source: Outcast of Redwall

Thinking

“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.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Disappointment, Way, For Friend

“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.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Source: Nature and Selected Essays

Star, Solitude, Reading

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

Sue Monk Kidd (1948) Novelist

Source: The Invention of Wings

Books

“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.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: P.S. I Love You

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.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Friendship

“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.”

Paulo Coelho book The Zahir

Source: The Zahir

Law, Success

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

Christopher Moore book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Guy, Perfection

“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.”

Tony Kushner (1956) American playwright and screenwriter

Source: Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika

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

Dan Brown book Deception Point

Source: Deception Point

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

Tom Robbins book Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker

“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.”

Jon Krakauer book Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

Thinking, Solitude, Time

“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.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Breaks

Daughters

“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.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

“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.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

World, Reality, Housing

“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.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

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

Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian

Reading

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

Susan Sontag Regarding the Pain of Others

Source: Regarding the Pain of Others

Thinking, Time

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

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Kiss an Angel

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

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

Life

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

Scott Westerfeld book Afterworlds

Source: Afterworlds

“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.”

Sherman Alexie (1966) Native American author and filmmaker

Dance

“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.”

Assata Shakur (1947) American activist who was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army

Education, History, Knowledge, Help

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

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Thinking

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

Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian

God, Time

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

Hilary Mantel book Wolf Hall

Source: Wolf Hall

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

Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American writer

People

“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.”

Edwidge Danticat The Farming of Bones

Source: The Farming of Bones

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

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

Source: Inkheart

Night

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

Obert Skye book Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo

Source: Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo

World

“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)”

Masashi Kishimoto book Naruto

Soul

“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.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

Sleep, Heart, Perfection

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

Salman Rushdie book Midnight's Children

Source: Midnight's Children

Life, World, Learning, 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.”

J.C. Ryle (1816–1900) Anglican bishop

Thinking

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

Charlotte Perkins Gilman book The Yellow Wall Paper

The Yellow Wallpaper (1891)
Source: The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

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

Bret Easton Ellis The Rules of Attraction

Source: The Rules of Attraction

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

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

“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.”

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

Love, Life, People

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

Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor

War

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

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

“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.”

Philip Pullman (1946) English author

Truth

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

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

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

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“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.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

Lie, Feeling, Communication

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

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“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.”

Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist

Pixie
Song lyrics
Source: Ani Difranco - Little Plastic Castle

Life, Sleep

“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.”

Alex Garland book The Coma

Source: The Coma

“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.”

Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

People

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

Orson Scott Card book Shadow of the Giant

Source: Shadow of the Giant

Truth, Thinking

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

Ambrose Bierce book The Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Devil's Dictionary

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

Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Life, Time

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

Jerry Spinelli book Maniac Magee

Source: Maniac Magee

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

Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

Source: Wall and Piece (2007)

People

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

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

Nature

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

David Lubar book Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie

Source: Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie

“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.”

Sylvia Plath Ariel

Source: Ariel

Peace, Lying, Light, Learning

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

Diana Norman (1933–2011) British author and journalist

Source: The Serpent's Tale

God

“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.”

Rick Riordan book The Sea of Monsters

Source: The Sea of Monsters

Thinking, Parting

“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.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

"Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies," lines 1-4, from Wine from These Grapes (1934)

Age, Birth, Childhood

“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.”

Vincent Van Gogh book The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Source: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Time, Heart

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

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

As quoted in "Literary Censorship in England" in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5 (November 1913), p. 378; this has sometimes appeared on the internet in paraphrased form as "Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads"
1910s
Context: Any public committee man who tries to pack the moral cards in the interest of his own notions is guilty of corruption and impertinence. The business of a public library is not to supply the public with the books the committee thinks good for the public, but to supply the public with the books the public wants. … Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read. But as the ratepayer is mostly a coward and a fool in these difficult matters, and the committee is quite sure that it can succeed where the Roman Catholic Church has made its index expurgatorius the laughing-stock of the world, censorship will rage until it reduces itself to absurdity; and even then the best books will be in danger still.

Books, Reading