Quotes about nobody
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“No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“And when you'd finished running you'd be thousands of miles away from people who love you and your problem would still be there except you'd have nobody to help you.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

Love, People, Problem, Help

“nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

“People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Survivor

Source: Survivor

People, Problem

“But I think we were walking around like we were invincible. And maybe that's a bad way to live your life. Because you're not invincible. Nobody is. And maybe now that we've learned that, we'll be better.”

David Levithan book Love Is the Higher Law

Source: Love Is the Higher Law

Life, Way, Thinking, Learning

“Repressively, Lymond himself answered. “I dislike being discussed as if I were a disease. Nobody ‘got’ me,” he said.”

Dorothy Dunnett (1923–2001) British writer

Source: The Game of Kings

Disease

“To be yourself requires extraordinary intelligence. You are blessed with that intelligence; nobody need give it to you; nobody can take it away from you. He who lets that express itself in its own way is a "Natural Man."”

U.G. Krishnamurti (1918–2007) Indian philosopher

Part 2: The Mystique of Enlightenment
The Mystique of Enlightenment (1982)
Source: The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U.G. Krishnamurti

Way, Intelligence, Nature

“Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway”

Sydney J. Harris (1917–1986) American journalist

Life, Motivational, Deep, Happy

“Twitter is the perpetual cocktail party where everyone is talking at once but nobody is saying anything.”

Teresa Medeiros (1962) American writer

Source: Goodnight Tweetheart

“Life don’t come to you, Memphis. You gotta take it. We have to take it. Because ain’t nobody handing it to us.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

Life

“Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in the world.”

Michael Crichton book State of Fear

Source: State of Fear

People, World, Problem

“Then I reckon we got ourselves a good old-fashioned standoff."
…
Nobody moved, or said anything, for the next few moments.
"Old-fashioned standoffs are mighty borin”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: The Faceless Ones

Fashion

“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

“(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

W [ViVa] (1931) LVII

Understanding

“Rose pictured him standing at the boundary of the Ogletree house in that enormous fur cape, with a giant sword sticking over his shoulder, roaring at the top of his lungs and then being upset that nobody came out, and laughed.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: On the Edge

Housing

“How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows?"
"They do it all the time," says Hayden. "That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

Education, Law, Time

“He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

Books, Feeling, Reading

“What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?”

Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) American poet

Source: The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

War

“Poor empty pants
With nobody inside them.”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

“Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.”

Rod Serling (1924–1975) American screenwriter

“We must set aside our wishes and give heed to reality. Nobody can accept the truth while hiding from it. When a decision matters, we have to stare at the truth unflinchingly. Only then can we find peace in our choices.”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

Source: Chasing the Prophecy

Truth, Peace, Reality, Decision

“Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.”

Harper Lee (1926–2016) American author

Learning

“i fear no fate(for you are my fate, my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Source: Selected Poems

Fate, Secret, World, Fear

“I am Nobody, nobody is perfect, therefore I am perfect.”

Dandi Daley Mackall American writer

Source: Love Rules

Perfection

“Nobody calls me 'blondie' and keeps their kneecaps.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“So I'm scared, because you're not just not human, you're not like anyone…. there's nobody like you in all the world and it's you I want. I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Hate, World

“The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you”

Rodman Philbrick book The Last Book in the Universe

Source: The Last Book in the Universe

Memory

“You would be better off having nobody than the wrong somebody. (On marrying for the wrong reasons.)”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

“Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too–maybe even yours.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Life, Business, Perfection

“Reality means you live until you die… the real truth is nobody wants reality.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Survivor

Source: Survivor

Truth, Reality

“As we live we all get caught and torn by various traps. Nobody escapes them. Some even live with them. The idea is to realize that a trap is a trap. If you are in one and you don't realize it, then you're finished.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

Idea

“Everyone is the other, and no one is himself. The they, which supplies the answer to the who of everyday Da-sein, is the nobody to whom every Da-sein has always already surrendered itself, in its being-among-one-another.”

Martin Heidegger book Being and Time

Stambaugh translation
Source: Being and Time (1927)

“Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition…”

Graham Chapman (1941–1989) English comedian, writer and actor

“I was so scared about being discovered, but nobody came. Nobody heard. In my own ears, though, my sobs sounded primal and scary, like something I would have turned off if I'd been able to.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

“For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Home

“I like quoting Einstein. Know why? Because nobody dares contradict you.”

Studs Terkel (1912–2008) American author, historian and broadcaster

The Guardian interview (2002)

Quotes

“Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself.”

Juliet Marillier book Son of the Shadows

Source: Son of the Shadows

“(The unsatisfying thing about practicing restraint was that nobody knew you were practicing it.)”

Anne Tyler (1941) American novelist

Source: Vinegar Girl

“Nobody looks good in their darkest hour. But it's those hours that make us what we are. We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our trails, or fracture by a permanent, damning fault line.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Faefever

Strong, Victory

“Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.”

Jeannette Walls book Half Broke Horses

Source: Half Broke Horses

Angels, Perfection

“And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

Hope

“Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

“I am notorious for making impassioned speeches about things nobody cares about.”

Mindy Kaling book Why Not Me?

Source: Why Not Me?

“Nobodys life ever goes according to plan.
So why do we keep on planning?
Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become.
And fail.
I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.”

Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Source: Treasure Box

Life

“Parents, teachers, government - they all teach you how to live the dreary, deadening life of a slave, but nobody teaches you how to live normally.”

Ryū Murakami book In the Miso Soup

Source: In the Miso Soup (1997)

Life, Parent, Teachers

“… remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Fate

“Morning. Strawberry sky dusted with white winter powder sugar sun. And nobody to munch on it with”

Francesca Lia Block Missing Angel Juan

Source: Missing Angel Juan

Winter, Sun

“My philosophy is pretty simple – any day nobody’s trying to kill me is a good day in my book.”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

Source: Darkfever

Books

“I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)
Variant: 288: I'm Nobody! Who are you?
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you — Nobody — Too?

Sad

“Nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were, they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you never experience downs?”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Variant: Nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. ow would you know happiness if you never experienced downs?
Source: P.S. I Love You

Life, Happiness, Perfection

“Nobody steals books but your friends.”

Roger Zelazny book The Guns of Avalon

Source: The Guns of Avalon

Books

“My name is Nobody.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

IX. 366 (tr. Robert Fagles); Odysseus to Polyphemus.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Variant: Nobody—that's my name.
Source: The Odyssey

“The only question that nobody ever asks is: What breaks your heart? I think that should be asked of all "artists."… So, what breaks your heart?”

Jonathan Carroll (1949) novelist, short story writer

Question, Thinking, Heart

“A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.”

Rob Sheffield (1966) American music journalist

Source: Love Is a Mix Tape

Love, Sadness

“Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it”

Natalie Goldberg (1948) American writer

“If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender in Exile

Source: Ender in Exile

“Sam looked at me soft. And she hugged me. And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms. And she kissed my cheek and whispered so nobody could hear.
"I love you.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Love, Kiss

“Maybe the hardest lesson Han had learned was that nobody is purely bad or good. Everybody seemed to be a mixture of both.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Gray Wolf Throne

Learning

“She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.”

Haruki Murakami book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Variant: I sometimes think that people's hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what's at the bottom. All you can do is guess from what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

People, Imagination, Thinking, Waiting

“If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business.”

William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair

Vol. I, ch. 19.
Source: Vanity Fair (1847–1848)

Business

“Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.”

Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

Love, God, Fools, Time

“The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.”

Rebecca West (1892–1983) British feminist and author

"The Salt of the Earth"
Source: The Harsh Voice: Four Short Novels (1935)

“Nobody loves only once.”

Cornelia Funke Reckless

Source: Reckless

Love

“There must be somebody there, because somebody must have said "Nobody.”

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

“And now I wish I hadn’t been civil, because he says he shall not despair! He is as stupid as Endymion!”
“No, no!” said Alverstoke soothingly. “Nobody could be as stupid as Endymion!”

Georgette Heyer book Frederica

Source: Frederica

Stupidity, Despair

“Who is Alice?" asked mother.
"Alice is somebody that nobody can see," said Frances. "And that is why she does not have a birthday. So I am singing Happy Thursday to her." - Frances the badger”

Russell Hoban (1925–2011) American British novelist, children's writer and illustrator

Source: A Birthday for Frances

Happiness, Birthday, Singing

“Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.”

Lev Grossman The Magician King

Source: The Magician King

“It was a lesson, Magnus thought, to love while you could, love what was fragile and beautiful and imperiled. Nobody was guaranteed forever.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Born to Endless Night

Love, Beauty

“Gar taldin ni jaonyc; gar sa buir, ori'wadaasla. (Nobody cares who your father was, only the father you'll be.) - Mandalorian saying”

Karen Traviss British science fiction author

Source: Order 66:

“The problem with not having anybody to tell you what to do, I understood, is that there was nobody to tell you what not to do.”

Augusten Burroughs book Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

Problem

“Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.”

James Baldwin book Nobody Knows My Name

"The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy" in Esquire (May 1961)
Variant: Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
Source: Nobody Knows My Name

Imagination, Heart

“Keys," she repeated, and slowly stepped back. "What do you mean, keys?"

"Car keys. As in, give them up. Now." Shane had that look -- hard, and no bullshit. "We don't have time for your drama, Monica. Nobody does.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Last Breath

Cars, Time

“And nobody has the right to judge a soldier from the warmth and safety of their armchair.”

Karen Traviss British science fiction author

“People don't talk about anything… No, not anything. They name a lot of cars or clothes or swimming pools mostly and say how swell! But they all say the same things and nobody says anything different from anyone else.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

People, Cars, Clothes

“When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

Revenge

“I'm me and nobody else; and whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I'm not, because they don't know a bloody thing about me.”

Alan Sillitoe book Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Source: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

People, Thinking

“I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Life, Feeling

“Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jotting down notes, but the rest are sitting there silently, not moving, totally absorbed. Just like me.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Time, Reading, Personality

“At least Kyle wasn't home. That would be a hard one to explain to his new roomate. Nobody liked a guy who kept blood in the fridge.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Guy, Home

“Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.”

Henry Kissinger (1923–2023) United States Secretary of State

Sex, Valentine's Day

“Kill, Destroy, Sack, Tell lie; how much you want after victory nobody asks why?

-- uncited source”

Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party

Lie, Victory

“And nobody had told them that they were short on time.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: P.S. I Love You

Time

“Nobody dies from the lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

Love, Sex

“She warned me about Mr. Herondale, though, said he’d likely be rude to me, and familiar. She said I could be rude right back, that nobody would mind.”

“Someone ought to be rude to him. He’s rude enough to everyone else.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“The difference between sex and death is, with death you can do it alone and nobody's going to make fun of you.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Also found in "Quotations According to Woody Allen" http://books.google.com/books?id=kd41AQAAIAAJ&q=%22quotations+according%22#search_anchor from the New York Times, 1 December 1975.

Death, Sex