Quotes about nothing

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“They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice… That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.”

“When a woman who has much to say says nothing, her silence can be deafening.”

“… There was nothing one could do when love came. It was fast, and it was strong, and if it were not good, then surely God would not have allowed it such power.”

“Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.”

“I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can’t feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.”

“Your shadow stealthily
leaves nothing of where you go, like a poisoned needle
that sews together my footsteps.
Your light pliantly
strikes the water tower, like a lightning bolt
that severs the source of my life.
-Soifon”

“For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.”

“When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.”

“There is nothing perfect. There is only life.”

“Even as she'd been writing it, she wondered if she was using too many exclamation marks, but she was glad she left them in. Nothing says "all is good in the world" like exclamation marks, after all.”

“All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so busy and then have nothing to say to each other.”

“there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.”

“Nothing is ever truly set by fate. In one blink, everything changes. Even though it should be a clear, sunny day, the softest whisper into the wind can become a hurricane that destroys everything it touches. (Acheron)”

“There is nothing more important than your eternal salvation.”

“Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.”

“There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate.”

“Friendship is a strange animal. It only thrives in voluntary enjoyment of each other's company, in the pleasure of nonobligatory connection. I repeat: You owe me nothing.”

“Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.”

“Beware the short terminal guy with nothing to lose.”

“You stand for nothing. You respect nobody. The music you dance to is devoid of beauty, its lyrics empty of humor or cleverness.”

“Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings”

“Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.”

“Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love”

“I don't expect you to understand anything I'm telling you. But I know you will remember this — that nothing good ever ends. If it did, there would be no people in the world — no life at all, anywhere. And the world is full of people and full of wonderful life.”

“Nothing ever happened - Not even this”

“One always dies too soon — or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.”

“We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real… and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be nothing, but who can give himself eternally to the truth in whom he subsists. (295)”

“All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.”

“The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.”

“He's become like that briefcase in the ground-full of gems yet void of light, so nothing sparkles, nothing shines.”

“Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?”

“In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed,' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything.”

“A man with nothing to die for has even less for which to live.”

“I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.”

“There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.”

“I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.”

“Nothing is as real as a dream. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.”

“I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.”

“There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”

“One word can give someone the strengththey needed at the moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a bad moment good. And one wrong outburstcould be that tiny push that causes someone to slip over the edge of destruction.”

“Nothing
would be
easier without
you,
because you
are
everything,
all of it-
sprinkles, quarks, giant
donuts, eggs sunny-side up-
you
are the ever-expanding
universe
to me.”

“And who are all these people? There weren't this many when I fell asleep."
Alfie shrugged, indicating that the universe was mysterious and nothing would ever be fully understood.”

“Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty - with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.”

“Make it bend — trees are flexible, so they don’t snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch — perfect trees don’t exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.”

“We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything.”

“I think of you as a friend. I used to think "friend" was just another word… Nothing more, nothing less. But when I met you, I realized what was important was the word's meaning.”

“I really did not feel okay about any of this, and there was really nothing I could do about any of it.”

“Daughter, we didn't need your note - or a prince's visit - to tell us you'd done nothing wrong. We know the daughter we raised. We fear for your future, but never for your character. You take our love and our trust wherever you wander.
Father.”

“Unfortunately, we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing.”

“Shri Ramakrishna use to say, "As Long as I Live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.”

“Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”

“Beware of those who weep with realization, for they have realized nothing.”

“Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.”

“Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.”

“For six months I couldn't sleep. With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.”

“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”

“If a man is really into you, nothing will stop him from being with you - including a fear of intimacy.”

“Let nothing disturb thee;
Let nothing dismay thee:
All things pass;
God never changes.”

“His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.”

“Razo knew he was best at nothing, except maybe cramming two cherries into a single nostril.”

“There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.”

“Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying.”

“The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition.”

“It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us… There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you… We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.”

“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”

“Nothing like being with people you’ve known almost your entire life. Having a shared history is something you just can’t create with the new ones. No matter how much you like that, it just isn’t the same.”

“Mr. Greer timed all our speeches with an oven timer. Things were nothing at Tribeca Alternative, considered one of Manhattan's finest prep schools, if not high tech.”

“You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.”

“The basketball court for me, during a game, is the most peaceful place I can imagine. On the basketball court, I worry about nothing. When I'm out there, no one can bother me…”

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”

“Bad things are not the worst things that an happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us.”

“I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.”

“It meant nothing to him any longer, only a faint tinge of sadness--and somewhere within him, a drop of pain moving briefly and vanishing, like a raindrop on the glass of a window, its course in the shape of a question mark.”

“If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing.”

“love doesn't follow the rules… nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.”

“Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?”

“Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.”

“Who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there…a clock without a craftsman.”

“Why do beautiful songs make you sad?" "Because they aren't true." "Never?" "Nothing is beautiful and true.”

“There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.”

“The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.”

“That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.”

“He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?”

“Agree with everything, explain nothing, then do what is best for you.”

“Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.”

“These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but the sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold.”

“History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses.”

“I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands."

"They're not empty now.”

“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”

“You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect.”

“There is nothing in your budget for joy. No books, no flowers, no music, not even a cold beer. And there is nothing in your budget to give away to someone else. We don’t help people who don’t have better values than you do.”

“For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.”

“When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.”

“Flesh could not keep its glamour, nor eyes their sheen. They would go to nothing soon. But monsters are forever.”

“We’re too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are, in case we are nothing, and holding on so tight, we lose everything else.”

“We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.”

“There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear.”

“But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.”

“There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be with someone,” I said diplomatically. Unless that person turns your world upside down and makes you lose all self-control.”